From Domain Tasting to Cybersquatting

Protecting Your Brands and Marks From Online Infringement

CD/DVD of a 90-minute CLE teleconference with Q&A


Conducted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Now available on CD/DVD


Description

Domain names, including a company's trademarks, represent its brand presence online. Worldwide, there are currently over one billion people on the Internet searching for goods and services and information about brand owners. These consumers spend hundreds of billions of dollars online every year.

There has also been an exponential increase in the number of incidences of cybersquatting — registration of domain names incorporating or confusingly similar to another's trademark — which results in consumer confusion, loss of sales, fraud, dilution, and increases business costs for trademark owners.

The bad actors involved are becoming more organized and are using increasingly sophisticated and automated means to both register domain names and display content that creates consumer confusion so that the domain owner can profit from the goodwill associated with others' trademarks.

Listen as our panel of intellectual property and Internet legal specialists examines cybersquatting and other online trademark abuses. The panel will offer their guidance on effective legal strategies to protect domain names from infringement and dilution.

Outline

  1. Background — Understanding the practice of domain tasting
    1. How the domain name system works
    2. What is a domain name
    3. Types of domain names
  2. Intersection between domain names and trademarks
    1. Differences between domain names and trademarks
    2. Direct navigation
    3. Cybersquatting
  3. Domain name disputes
    1. gTLDs
    2. ccTLDs
  4. Domain name protection strategies
    1. Preemptive registration

Benefits

The panel reviewed these and other key questions: 

  • How does the domain name system work?
  • What are the costs of cybersquatting to businesses and IP owners?
  • What are the key steps that companies can take to protect their domain names and trademarks from infringement and dilution?

Faculty

Doug Isenberg, Founder
The GigaLaw Firm, Atlanta

He practices intellectual property and Internet law and has advised clients on domain name disputes for more than 12 years. He is a domain name panelist for the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Czech Arbitration Court. He is also an adjunct professor of computer and cyberspace law and founder of GigaLaw.com

Karol A. Kepchar, Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Washington, D.C.

She heads the firm's Trademark, Copyright and Internet Practice. She advises clients on a wide variety of issues, including domain name disputes and the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. She also counsels clients on ICANN arbitration procedures, privacy and data security issues, global and regional branding programs, licensing and strategic alliance agreements, and TTAB proceedings.

Richard G. Lyon, Of Counsel
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Dallas

He assists clients in litigation involving intellectual property issues and also serves as an arbitrator in domain name disputes and other matters for the World Intellectual Property Organization. He also advises clients on structure and financing of the acquisition and exploitation of intellectual capital, such as licensing, outsourcing, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.

Ordering

Teleconference on CD

Purchase a CD of the full event proceedings, including Q&A and PDF files of all handouts (available 10 days after the seminar).

For CLE only, this program is pre-approved for self-study credit in AK, AZ, CA, MO, MT, VT, WV.

Self-study CLE credits are also available in CT*, CO, GA, ID, KY, LA, ME, NV, ND, NY*, OR, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY.
Please call us if you will be self-reporting in one of these states. *For CT and NY, Strafford needs to process the CLE — see below to purchase this option

Self-study CPE is not offered on CD purchases.

CD $297.00 plus $9.45 S&H


CLE Processing on CD/DVD (NY and CT Only)

CLE processing for listening to the CD/DVD is available for an additional $65 per person per state in NY and CT.

CLE on CD Processing $65.00

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Customer Reviews

Presentations were excellent. I especially benefited from the question and answer session, as the speakers addressed actual situations that affect many of us.

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The information was relevant and well presented.  The questions were good, and the speakers responded with clear knowledge.

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Intellectual Property Law Advisory Board

Stephen R. Baird

Shareholder

Winthrop & Weinstine

Charles S. Baker

Partner

Porter & Hedges

David S. Bloch

Partner

Winston & Strawn

Hung H. Bui

Partner

Stein McEwen & Bui

Ian N. Feinberg

Partner

Mayer Brown

Anthony J. Fitzpatrick

Partner

Duane Morris

Craig P. Opperman

Partner

Reed Smith

David Segal

Partner

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Jeffrey R. Seul

Partner

Holland + Knight

Astrid R. Spain

Partner

McDermott Will & Emery