Wim van den Berg repairs, maintains and sells only Porsches, for many years. Since 1996, he calls his company “Porsche Specialist van den Berg”. In 1999 he registers the domain

The ECJ has decided that use of a trademark as an adword is allowed as long as the consumer has the ability to determine the origin of the sign used.

In domain name conflicts there are two possibilities for a procedure. Either a court procedure or a procedure with WIPO, the UDRP. The UDRP was conceived in order to obtain

The city of Paris registered the brands PARVI and PARVI, PARIS VILLE NUMERIQUE as trademarks in 2002, for Internet communications among other things. The trademark is used for WIFI connections

These days every large sporting tournament or event has its own mascot. From a merchandising point of view this is a very clever thing to do. The mascot for the

Since January it is possible to apply for new generic top-level domain names with ICANN. At the moment there are only 21 gTLDs (such as .com and .org). The new

When a trademark is infringed by use of a domain name, two procedures are available to act against the other party: A court procedure or a UDRP procedure with WIPO.

Starting January 12, , for a period of ninety days organizations (both public and commercial institutions) may apply for their own top level extension (a gTLD). The new

After the first ruling on the use of brands such as Google Adwords, there is now a second important ruling relating to market places. L’Oreal filed a case

Univé is not the owner of the website UNIVE.COM. This is a Pay Per Click ads website for universities. Univé started a procedure with WIPO to claim the