Great Blog Post - Domaining Due Diligence

[keyser]

Those cases were both premised on French trademark registrations and there is no free online access to French trademark registrations.

What about your homework john ?
k:

http://www.societe.com/marques/indexm.html
http://www.icimarques.com/

Hope it helps.

 

[jberryhill]

What about your homework john ?
k:

http://www.societe.com/marques/indexm.html
http://www.icimarques.com/

Hope it helps.

I gather you've never attempted to actually retrieve information from those sites...

"Vous disposez déjà d'un compte sur ICIMARQUES.
Vos consommations vous seront facturées à la fin du mois."

Again... there is no free access to French trademark data. Yes, there are databases available on a paid basis.

And as it turns out, roughly 11% of all UDRP filings are by French complainants:

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/statistics/countries.jsp?party=C