The Forum (formerly the National Arbitration Forum) has appointed attorney Doug Isenberg as a member of its expert panel for the Trademark Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Policy (TM-PDDRP). According to ICANN, the TM-PDDRP is "a dispute resolution mechanism for someone that believes that a Registry Operator is intentionally and systematically infringing trademarks in its top-level domain (TLD), either by itself or by aiding third parties." The TM-PDDRP applies to new gTLDs, that is, those delegated by ICANN as part of the 2012 application process.
Doug Isenberg Attends Legal Publisher's Advisory Council Meeting
Doug Isenberg, a member of the Wolters Kluwer Computer Law, Intellectual Property and Privacy (CLIPP) Advisory Council, attended the group's annual retreat in Chicago on May 30-June 1, 2015. The CLIPP Advisory Council provides advice, recommendations and feedback to Wolters Kluwer for the publisher's IP Law Daily newsletter and other intellectual property law products.
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Doug Isenberg Listed in 'Best Lawyers' for Technology Law
Doug Isenberg was recently listed in Best Lawyers magazine as one of only eight top attorneys for "Technology Law" in Georgia. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer-review. The methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.
Los Angeles Times Quotes Doug Isenberg on Celebrity Domain Names
The Los Angeles Times quoted attorney Doug Isenberg in an article titled, "Celebs play defense as they buy up new .porn Web addresses," published on April 13, 2015. The article discusses the controversy surrounding domain name registrations by celebrities and others, noting that, "Fabulous people and well-known brands are buying up Internet addresses with controversial endings such as .porn, .adult and .sucks to make sure they don’t end up in the hands of someone who could besmirch their names and reputations."
The article says:
Doug Isenberg, an attorney who specializes in domain-name issues, expects plenty of recently approved suffixes to disappear. Just 16 out of the more than 300 new endings on sale to the public have reached 50,000 sign-ups, a milestone that typically triggers registries such as ICM and Vox Populi to pay fees to ICANN, according to tracking site nTLDstats.com.
Said Isenberg, "Everyone's hoping they have the next .com but very few, if any, of them will be as successful as .com."
Doug Isenberg Speaks on Domain Name Disputes at State Bar of Georgia Midyear Meeting
Doug Isenberg presented a continuing legal education (CLE) program at the State Bar of Georgia's Midyear Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 9, 2015. The title of his presentation was "From the UDRP to the URS: Domain Name Disputes in 2015." The presentation covered the history of domain name disputes and the current expansion of the global top-level domain name system (gTLD), with a focus on cybersquatting and alternative dispute procedures such as the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the new Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS).
Isenberg regularly files complaints on behalf of trademark owners under both the UDRP and the URS and has served as a domain name panelist for many years at at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the National Arbitration Forum (NAF), the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre (BCICAC).
