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Domain names

Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to manage their domain names while keeping track of potential infringements of their IP rights on the internet, and then to combat such abuse.

We have developed a programme for actively monitoring and taking action against the unauthorised use of your trade marks and domain names on the internet.

Our programme saves you both time and money and provides one point of contact for all services relating to the online protection of your valuable IP rights. Our experience shows that the quality of advice is improved when one provider has the full overview of a company’s complete range of internet IP-related activities.

Monitoring

We offer a monitoring service so that infringements of your IP rights on the internet can be tracked using some of the best developed internet intelligence technology in the industry. We will tailor our monitoring service to meet your particular needs.

Enforcement

We provide enforcement services to advise you how to stop online infringement of their IP rights and how to take proportionate action and proactive steps to minimise any abuse in the future.

We have advised on numerous domain name disputes for clients across a wide range of sectors and industries. Our experience covers various different dispute resolution procedures including: UDRP (for generic top level domains such as .com and .net); Nominet’s DRS (for .uk top level domains) and EURid’s ADR (for .eu top level domains). We were successful in obtaining the cancellation of a .pro top level domain, in one of the first decisions relating to the .pro suffix.

We also have a wide range of experience in all types on online infringement of rights in relation to infringing content (including take-downs via the US Digital Millennium Act) and the sale of counterfeit goods on the internet.

Once infringements have been identified, through our enforcement process, we have the capability to ensure they are dealt with efficiently in accordance with the client’s policies. Our extensive experience across all areas of intellectual property infringement enables us to provide an all-encompassing service.