trademark issues

CPA Ad Network Adds Service to Reclaim Domains and Lost Revenue from Cybersquatters

Beverly Hills, CA — Hydra, the largest pure performance-based advertising network, today announced a new working partnership with CitizenHawk, a leading provider of trademark protection and domain recovery services for branded advertisers.

June 10, 2009 -- The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) offers a set of announcements for public discussion as meeting in Sydney nears. The announcements include:

New Explanatory Memo for Pre-delegation Testing for New gTLDs

The module 5 of the Draft Applicant Guidebook version 2 available since early February describes procedures applicable at the concluding stages of the gTLD application process, more specifically, a pre-delegation test addressing technical and other requirements the applicant will be asked to fulfill.

May 17, 2009 - Google says it is relaxing the restrictions on the use of trademarked names in advertisements distributed using its ubiquitous Google AdWords product. The announcement appeared in a blog post on Google's official Inside AdWords blog earlier this week.

The new, relaxed policy takes effect for ads posted after May 15, 2009. The new ads will not begin appearing, according to the post, until June 15.

From the blog:

March 26, 2009 -- As directed by Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) Board in a recent resolution, the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) has formed an Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT). The IRT has been formed to provide possible solutions to trademark issues raised in the new Generic Top-Level Domain (New gTLDs) implementation planning.