Schwab v. Schwab UDRP Results In Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Decision

Illustrating the dangers of filing a UDRP complaint where the domain registrant’s name and the asserted trademark are identical, a recent Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”) decision denied the complaint, with a two-panelist majority finding the complaint failed to establish two of the three UDRP elements.

Complainant Charles Schwab has offered financial services under its SCHWAB and SCHWAB-formative marks for almost four decades. Respondent Simon Schwab, claiming to be an entrepreneur who began providing loans […]

By | February 8th, 2023 ||

Enforcing IP Rights In Cambodia: Available Customs Measures

The available options for enforcing intellectual property (IP) in Cambodia have steadily increased over the past years, and both enforcement authorities and IP owners have gained valuable experience in enforcement operations. This experience, alongside new legal developments, has contributed to an increase in successful IP enforcement cases—most notably those involving the police or the courts in Cambodia.

Targeted government policies have further fostered a more robust IP enforcement framework in Cambodia for both local and […]

By | February 5th, 2023 ||

Finland: Copyrights And NFTs

This is the sixth installment of our 8-part series covering different phenomena in the field of cryptographic assets, and today it is time to have a look at copyrights regarding non-fungible tokens, i.e., NFTs.

In this brief article, we will guide you through the basics of NFT related copyright matters and highlight the new “Can’t be Evil” license solutions released by Andreessen Horowitz in August 2022. The license package is freely available and specifically designed to serve […]

By | February 2nd, 2023 ||