Company applies for WUR-COM #trademark without the Telepathy #domain

Posted by DomainGang on October 30, 2020, at 10:25 am

A company has applied for the registration of WUR-COM as a trademark at the USPTO. Wurtec, Inc. operating from Wurtec.com, filed the application citing September 29, 2020 as the date of first use in commerce. The mark’s application is for “Elevators and parts of elevators.” Meanwhile, Telepathy owns the matching three letter .com domain, WUR.com, […]

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#USPTO issued trademark guidelines following Booking.com decision

Posted by DomainGang on October 28, 2020, at 2:35 pm

Since the decision by SCOTUS on the Booking.com case, many registrants of generic domain names have applied to register marks. These marks contain the fully qualifying domain, including the TLD. We keep track of these applications, and report on them. With all these applications pending, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released […]

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Generic #domains : Company.com applies for #trademark registration

Posted by DomainGang on October 26, 2020, at 12:43 pm

Trending: Companies operating generic domains file for trademark registration at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO.) Following the green light by SCOTUS on the Booking.com case, numerous such applications have been filed, and we keep track of these attempts to expand on the trademark pool. The registrants of the domain Company.com are looking […]

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LowRates.com #domain name receives Supplemental Register entry at the #USPTO

Posted by DomainGang on October 21, 2020, at 10:45 am

LowRates.com has received an entry at the Supplemental Register for its trademark application, LOWRATES.COM. The trademark was registered yesterday, October 20th, following an application in July. It is the first such registration since an onslaught of applications began at the end of June. What is the Supplemental Register? The Supplemental Register provides trademark owners with […]

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#Tuatara : World’s fastest car arrived with no matching .com #domain name

Posted by DomainGang on October 20, 2020, at 2:07 pm

Tuatara is the world’s fastest production car, from SSC North America. Previously known as Shelby Super Cars, the company produced the Tuatara, a car with an average top speed of 316 mph. That’s 508 kph for our metric friends, a staggering performance. The Tuatara sports twin butterfly doors and produces 1,750 hp from a turbocharged […]

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Slaps.com : New #trademark application indicates #domain was sold

Posted by DomainGang on October 20, 2020, at 10:38 am

A trademark application for SLAPS.COM at the USPTO is a positive indicator that the domain Slaps.com was recently sold. The application for the registration of the SLAPS.COM mark was made with an “intent to use” clause. The domain Slaps.com was last updated on April 4, 2020, indicating that a sale completed around that time. The […]

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Birthstone.com : New #trademark application indicates #domain sale might have occurred

Posted by DomainGang on October 19, 2020, at 11:50 am

A fresh trademark application for BIRTHSTONE.COM at the USPTO is a positive indicator that the domain Birthstone.com was recently sold. The application for the registration of the BIRTHSTONE.COM mark was made with a date of first use being May 17, 2020. The domain Birthstone.com was last updated on May 18, 2020, indicating that perhaps a […]

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China’s #ininin wants to register the matching .com as a #trademark

Posted by DomainGang on October 19, 2020, at 10:18 am

If you really want to be “in” just use it three times. Ininin is a software company in China, and they are looking to trademark the “ininin.com” domain at the USPTO. Their logo looks confusingly similar to that of LinkedIn, a similarly shaped enclosure with “in” inside. It is part of the trademark application. Here’s […]

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FacebookSell.com : “An ongoing project which I have invested for years”

Posted by DomainGang on October 16, 2020, at 1:50 pm

From the hilarious responses to a UDRP department: FacebookSell.com was hit with a UDRP at the WIPO. The famous mark FACEBOOK is so strong that even savvy investor, Mike Mann, isn’t immune to it. And yet, the British Respondent in this UDRP had the cojones to respond thus: “I respectfully reject the allegation made by […]

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Generic #domains : Level.com applies for #trademark registration

Posted by DomainGang on October 15, 2020, at 12:09 pm

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Cart.com : New #trademark application indicates #domain sale has occurred

Posted by DomainGang on October 12, 2020, at 10:29 am

A fresh trademark application for CART.COM at the USPTO is a positive indicator that the domain Cart.com was recently sold. The aged domain listed for sale through the Uniregistry Market platform, along with Afternic. The application for the registration of the CART.COM mark was made with an “intent to use” clause, re-enforcing the sentiment that […]

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CostSaver.com : Trademark alone won’t suffice to hand over #domain via #UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on October 6, 2020, at 8:46 am

CostSaver.com is a domain registered in 1998 and a generic one to boot. A Canadian company, based on a 2013 trademark, filed a UDRP to get the domain from its owner. The Travel Corporation Ltd. filed the UDRP with the National Arbitration Forum, hoping to get the domain but the Respondent fired back. The sole […]

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