elizabethtaylor.com UDRP...tough luck for the actress?

[Dave Zan]

For those who haven't subscribed to NAF's mailing list, here's an interesting
UDRP for you:

http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/449882.htm

If you read it thoroughly, the Respondent had a lot of things against him. But
against all odds, he won!

A big factor in the Respondent's win is that the Complainant registered their
trademarks seemingly too late. I'm not really sure how to "interpet" the events
at USPTO, though.

What happened?

 

[fischermx]

This case was badly presented by the complainant.
All they had to do was to claim "common law" trademark rights.
But once the panel discarded the trademark ownership, the legitim interest and bad faith discussions did not proceed.
Bad luck for her

 

[jberryhill]

You nailed it. The complainant screwed the pooch on this one. There was no good reason for them to lose.

 

[Theo]

Let's see if Marlon Brando will do any better :-D

 

[fischermx]

Davezan, I have sometime on the site looking for such mailing list and I can't find it.
All I found was the RSS feed for the blog.

 

[Dave Zan]

Davezan, I have sometime on the site looking for such mailing list and I can't find it.
All I found was the RSS feed for the blog.

Send your contact info and email to domain-newsATarb-forum.com. But since
you subscribed via RSS, that's even better.

Speaking of which, time to send them some suggestions on the subject...