Date: 29 Apr 2004, Filed under: IT, Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Domain Names
The Commonwealth Attorney-General has released the results of the research and analysis of the Digital Agenda and related copyright reforms undertaken...
Date: 13 Apr 2004, Filed under: Intellectual Property, Domain Names
There is a lot of confusion in many businesses about names. The Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) is conducting a review into the interplay...
Date: 12 Mar 2004, Filed under: Business & Commercial Law, IT, Telecommunications, Media Law, Domain Names
Domain names have developed into an important part of a company’s marketing and promotional strategy, and are a vital element in developing a company’s...
Date: 13 Nov 2003, Filed under: IT, Telecommunications, Domain Names
When is your domain name (or domain names) up for renewal? Who in your company is in charge of your domain name renewals? Is the person named as the contact...
Date: 13 Nov 2003, Filed under: Competition & Trade Regulation, IT, Telecommunications, Domain Names
While the internet is an efficient public relations tool, vigilance is required and people involved in creating commercial websites must ensure that the...
Date: 26 Feb 2003, Filed under: Business & Commercial Law, IT, Intellectual Property, Domain Names
The body responsible for the administration of .au domain names, auDA, has announced that it will introduce a new second level domain system, for Australian...
Date: 19 Feb 2003, Filed under: Business & Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Domain Names
Until recently, domain names that were the same as Australian geographic names could not be registered, for the public policy reason that no individual...
Date: 16 Dec 2002, Filed under: IT, Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Domain Names
In a case between Harrods Limited (Harrods UK) and Harrods (Buenos Aires) Limited (Harrods BA) the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit addressed...
Date: 31 Oct 2002, Filed under: Business & Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Domain Names
The purpose of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, known as the UDRP (hereafter the Policy), is to determine disputes relating to the registration or...
Date: 22 Oct 2002, Filed under: Business & Commercial Law, IT, Intellectual Property, Domain Names
On 8 August 2002, a WIPO panelist decided that the domain name robbiewilliams.info is virtually identical and confusingly similar to the trade mark of...
