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National Arbitration Forum

Type: Organization

Name: National Arbitration Forum

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft seizes foreign Bing typo

Microsoft has won a fight with a cybersquatter who registered a misspelling of Bing.com aimed at non-English speakers.The contested domain name, xn--bng-jua.com, is a so-called Internationalised Domain Name, which translates to bıng.com in Punycode-compatible ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by Thinq.co.uk]

Entities: Microsoft Corporation, National Arbitration Forum, American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ICANN, Squatter

First Reported Feb 18 2010 - Updated Feb 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Denny Chin

BofA wins cybersquatting judgement

According to Reuters, J Taikwok Yung, using his business Webadviso, registered the names through GoDaddy.com on the day that news of the Merrill takeover broke in September 2008.US District Judge Denny Chin has barred Yung from using the addresses, finding ... [Published Feb 18 2010 by Finextra Research]

Entities: Denny Chin, National Arbitration Forum, Mike Morgan, Bank of America Corporation

First Reported Feb 16 2010 - Updated Feb 16 2010 - 2 Documents

Bank of America Corporation

BofA wins judgment over cybersquatter on Web names (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) Bank of America Corp has won a court judgment barring a self-described cybersquatter from using the "bofaml.com" and "mlbofa.com" Internet domain names following the bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.U.S. District Judge Denny ... [Published Feb 16 2010 by Yahoo! News]

Entities: Bank of America Corporation, Denny Chin, Merrill Lynch & Co Inc, Mergers & Acquisitions, National Arbitration Forum

First Reported Feb 11 2010 - Updated Feb 11 2010 - 1 Documents

Debt hounds wind up chasing their own tails

— If anybody was to have made a killing in the economic crisis, it should have been debt collectors. With consumers going bust at the worst rate in decades, who likelier than the debt hounds to score big thanks to the recession?In a tawdry coda to the ... [Published Feb 11 2010 by Chicago Tribune]

Entities: Bracken, Arbitration, National Arbitration Forum, Johns Hopkins

First Reported Feb 10 2010 - Updated Feb 10 2010 - 1 Documents

Buzzkill: Google Won Disputed Googlebuzz.com Domain A Month Ago

Naturally, which you launch a new product with a huge amount of hype, like Google Buzz , you’re going to want to own the .com domain name for it. And Google obtained googlebuzz.com just in the nick of time, according to a document from the National ... [Published Feb 10 2010 by TechCrunch]

Entities: Google Inc, CrunchBase, National Arbitration Forum, launches new product

First Reported Feb 01 2010 - Updated Feb 01 2010 - 1 Documents

Debt hounds wind up chasing their own tails

BALTIMORE - If anybody was to have made a killing in the economic crisis, it should have been debt collectors. With consumers going bust at the worst rate in decades, who likelier than the debt hounds to score a big recession payday?That they turned out ... [Published Feb 01 2010 by Philadelphia Inquirer]

Entities: Bracken, Arbitration, National Arbitration Forum

First Reported Dec 31 2009 - Updated Dec 31 2009 - 1 Documents

Google Inc

Google defeated by Groovle approval

Google's complaint that the domain name groovle.com is confusingly similar to its own is without foundation, an ICANN-approved arbitration body has ruled.Google filed its complaint with the National Arbitration Forum, one of the bodies approved by the ... [Published Dec 31 2009 by PC Advisor]

Entities: Google Inc, National Arbitration Forum, ICANN, Declination

First Reported Dec 30 2009 - Updated Dec 31 2009 - 6 Documents

Google Loses Domain Name Dispute

Google's empire hasn't exactly crumbled, and to be honest, the average person will probably never even realize what's happened. But what's happened is this: for just the second time in its history, Google's lost a domain name dispute. Google submitted ... [Published Dec 30 2009 by WebProNews Feed]

Entities: Google Inc, National Arbitration Forum, ICANN

First Reported Dec 22 2009 - Updated Dec 22 2009 - 1 Documents

Mandatory Arbitration Takes Another Huge Hit As Obama Signs New Law

When a former employee of defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root sued the company after reporting she was raped by co-workers in Iraq, company owner Halliburton tried to force the case into arbitration. The woman, Jaime Lee Jones, has been "the ... [Published Dec 22 2009 by Clusterstock]

Entities: Arbitration, Barack Obama, Waiver, National Arbitration Forum

First Reported Dec 15 2009 - Updated Dec 15 2009 - 1 Documents

Settlement Reached with Bank of America in Case Accusing Credit Card Companies of Colluding on Arbitration Terms

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Berger & Montague, P.C. announces a tentative settlement with Bank of America, N.A. and a related company in a 4-year-old lawsuit accusing Bank of America and other credit card companies of unlawfully colluding to ... [Published Dec 15 2009 by Financial Services]

Entities: Bank of America Corporation, Credit Card, Arbitration

First Reported Nov 23 2009 - Updated Nov 23 2009 - 1 Documents

The Arbitration Revolution* Goes On: JP Morgan Ends It

* Let’s say this up front: It’s probably too soon to call the arbitration backlash a revolution, though it could someday soon justify the term. The latest news: J.P. Morgan Chase, which has for months been giving consideration to dropping its mandatory ... [Published Nov 23 2009 by WSJ.com: Law Blog]

Entities: Arbitration, JPMorgan Chase & Co, National Arbitration Forum, American Arbitration Association, Bank of America Corporation

First Reported Nov 13 2009 - Updated Nov 13 2009 - 1 Documents

FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains By UDRP

typosquatting writes to mention that the largest domain dispute case since the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) was enacted ten years ago has been decided. The decision saw 1,017 cyber-squatting domains turned over to ConsumerInfo.com, ... [Published Nov 13 2009 by Slashdot]

Entities: Trademark, National Arbitration Forum

Quotes

"There's the potential here for the entire model to change" said consumer lawyer Peter Holland, a visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Law...

After the fall [Baltimore Sun - 18 hours ago]

...Customers "ask you to explain what arbitration is, then basically hand you the money."

Debt hounds wind up chasing their own tails [Chicago Tribune - Feb 11 2010]

More Content

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After the fall [Baltimore Sun - 18 hours ago]
Microsoft seizes foreign Bing typo [Thinq.co.uk - Mar 18 2010]
Physician-patient arbitration agreements: Make ... [Orthopedics Today - Mar 03 2010]
BofA wins cybersquatting judgement [Finextra Research - Feb 18 2010]
BofA wins judgment over cybersquatter on Web na... [Yahoo! News - Feb 16 2010]
BofA wins judgment over cybersquatter on Web names [Reuters UK - Feb 16 2010]
Consumer Financial Services Institute (15th Ann... [Practising Law Institute - Feb 14 2010]
Debt hounds wind up chasing their own tails [Chicago Tribune - Feb 11 2010]
Groovle beats Google in online ADR [Lawyers Weekly Canada - Feb 10 2010]
Debt hounds wind up chasing their own tails [Philadelphia Inquirer - Feb 01 2010]
Google defeated by Groovle approval [PC Advisor - Dec 31 2009]
Google Loses Domain Name Dispute [WebProNews Feed - Dec 30 2009]
Google slapped in domain name spat [The Register - Dec 30 2009]
Google Loses Domain Name Dispute [Business Technology - Dec 30 2009]
Settlement Reached with Bank of America in Case... [Financial Services - Dec 15 2009]
FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains By UDRP [Slashdot - Nov 13 2009]

Blogs

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Buzzkill: Google Won Disputed Googlebuzz.com Do... [TechCrunch - Feb 10 2010] Naturally, which you launch a new product with a huge amount of hype, like Google Buzz, you’re going to want to own the .com domain name for it. And Google obtained ...
Mann Bracken, Debt-Collecting Law Firm Extraord... [WSJ.com: Law Blog - Jan 20 2010] If you owe money and have been pursued by law firm Mann Bracken, you might be in luck. We repeat: you might be in luck. The Maryland law firm had been one of ...
How to beat Google in a domain name dispute [Ars Technica - Dec 30 2009] Google has filed 64 domain name disputes with the National Arbitration Forum since 2001. It has won 62 times, arguing that the names ...
Google Loses Domain Name Arbitration Over Groov... [Search Engine Watch Blog - Dec 30 2009] Google thought it had a right to own Groovle.com, so it took it's case to the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). (The NAF is an international arbitration service ...
Google loses domain name dispute with Groovle.com [SlashGear - Dec 30 2009] Google is well known for vigorously defending its trademarked domain name. The search giant has initiated multiple arbitration claims through ICANN against website ...