Federal Judge Tells Habitual Cybersquatter Gillece To Stop Cybersquatting

Cybersquatting and Domain Name Dispute Update:  Judge Tells Gillece To Stop Cybersquatting - Pittsburgh-Area Plumber Must Stop Internet Redirection

Federal judge orders habitual cybersquatter, Gillece Services, to stop cybersquatting on its competitors.  Gillece Services is a plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical service company based in Pittsburgh.

Cybersquatting Cases | Ford Sues Ferrari for Cybersquatting F-150 Trademark

Ferrari sued for trademark infringement:

Detroit News:  Ford Motor Co. sues Ferrari in U.S. Federal Court for cybersquatting and trademark infringement for using its famous F-150 trademark.  Ford filed the lawsuit after Ferrari named its new Formula 1 racing car the “F-150,” and after creating the new website www.Ferrari150.com.

According to The Detriot News, Ford claims that it has suffered irreparable harm to its F-150 trademark and its lawyers are urging judge to block Ferrari’s use of the trademark in the U.S., award damages, and make Ferrari give up any earned revenues and profits earned in the U.S. through the use of its trademark.  Further, Ford demands $100,000 in damages pursuant to the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) for cybersquatting.  We'll stay tuned for more news from this cybersquatting case. 

Source: Ford sues Ferrari over F-150 name, The Detroit News

Cybersquatting Lawsuits | .CO Domain Names & ClickBank

The payment processing company Click Sales Inc., which operates the poplular service and domain name ClickBank.com, filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO) in order to obtain the .CO ccTLD.  The Clickbank.co domain name is currently registered in China and is listed for sale on Sedo.

Day Two Highlights from DOMAINfest 2011, brought to you by Traverse Legal

Day Two at DOMAINfest 2011 included a presentation by Jay Berkowitz, author of the Ten Golden Rules of Online Marketing and panel discussions covering the acquisition and monetization of traffic using local, mobile, social & video, and opportunities in ccTLDs, IDNs and gTLDs:

• What would YOU do for $5?  Fiverr...check it out!
• SEO friendly basics: Clean architecture, quality content and Wordpress. Most importantly, do you know what terms your clients are searching on?
• Social networking sites - unified branding as a package deal. Do you have all your vanity URL's?
• Blended content is key - video + organic text-based SEO.
• Traverse Legal founding partner Enrico Schaefer one of 10 finalists in the PITCHfest contest, presenting to Andries de Villiers, Scott Jarus, John Morris, Jeff Cohn and an audience of over 600 industry pros.

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Coming up tomorrow: Tried and tested tips and strategies for the purchase and sale of domains, a chat with Ben Mezrich, Author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, the 3rd annual fundraising party at the Playboy Mansion, and more.  Join Traverse Legal LIVE for the final day of DOMAINfest 2011!

Live Coverage from Traverse Legal at DOMAINfest 2011 - Day One Highlights

Day one at DOMAINfest 2011 kicked off with a Frank Schilling moderated panel discussion among industry experts Jeff Bartlett, Howard Hoffman, Jamie MacMillan and Joerg Schnermann, presentations by comScore Search Evangalist Eli Goodman and Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky, and a keynote presentation by GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons.  

Frank discusses the sale of 250 domains for $7 million, Jamie states long tail terms are better than category domains in terms of conversion to start, Eli says MySpace is NOT dead, Jeff predicts investment in category domains, and Bob takes a swipe at the New York Times, discusses his faith and refuses response to questions regarding new gTLD's...

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