What Company Files the Most Cybersquatting Cases under the UDRP Cybersquatting Law?

Cybersquatting cases under the UDRP are up: 

According to Domain Incite author Kevin Murphy, children toy manufacturer Lego recently passed Microsoft in filed complaints against cybersquatters, reporting that Lego has filed 236 cases under the UDRP since 2006, one more than Microsoft.  “The 236 cases equates to over $350,000 in WIPO fees alone,” Murphy estimates. “I’d be surprised if Lego has spent less than $1 million on UDRP cases over the last few years,” he explains. Murphy also reports that America Online (AOL) has both companies beat with approximately 277 filed UDRP cases in the last decade.

So how aggressive should you be in pursing cybersquatting cases against cybersquatters under the UDRP?

Lego files a UDRP complaint against a cybersquatter to recover a stolen domain name every three days on average.  You need to protect your trademarks as well.  If you ever need to file a lawsuit for trademark infringement or cybersquatting, the first question will be how many other people are using your trademark, or a variation of your trademark, on the internet and in domain names.  If you don’t protect your trademark against infringement on the internet, you may not be able to enforce your trademark anywhere.  Filing a consistent stream of trademark infringement and cybersquatting threat letters as well as cybersquatting cases under the UDRP is critical to your brand management program. 

If you have a trademark or cybersquatting law issue, contact one of our experienced trademark and domain name dispute attorneys at 866-648-7447.

Comments

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Lego is stupid. The vast majority of Lego websites provide information about Lego and their products. Their domain name, while containing the word 'lego' look nothing what-so-ever like www.lego.com or any of it's sub directories.

This is just ridiculous to go after every website that you can find that contain the word lego.

Now for the stupidity of Lego.
Number one. Any website that is about Lego is free advertising for Lego.

Number two. A big percentage of these domains are owned by Lego enthusiast, which in turn mean, they are owned by Lego customers who give Lego a great amount of business.

Number three. These are also websites that help other Lego enthusiast in ways that Lego can't and / or chooses not to, thereby relieving Lego of customer support that might otherwise be demanded of Lego.

And these are the people that Lego wants to sue???

I have seen the WIPO website were Lego has actually filed copyright infringement claims over domains that go something like www.lookatthatbicyclego.com.

This, no doubt, would be a website about bikes, where the words are all spelled as one word as in most websites. The site would read as 'look at that bicycle go", of which Lego would sue just because the last four letters were L, E, G and O.

How nit picky can you get? How much of a bully can you be? How ridiculous can you be? How much can you possible harass others without it coming back to bite you in the end.

I have already communicate with former Lego website owners who say they will never do business with Lego again. One such person claims they will also be spreading as much bad publicity about Lego as they can, and I am sure there are others like him / her.

It's amazing that a company as large as Lego lacks this much business sense and this much apathy toward the very people ( their customers ) who keep them in business.