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Dez 20, 2017
Jonas Wahlund, Dotkeeper, Schweden
First published on www.lexology.com

Re-registered domain names used for trademark infringem...


Jonas Wahlund, Dotkeeper, Schweden, First published on www.lexology.comThe European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recently released a report based on phase two of a study concerning intellectual property infringements online. In the first phase, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate the different methods used for such infringements. It was followed up by the second phase, a quantitative study, in which a method was analysed in greater detail. The method analysed in phase two, was one where domain names had not been renewed by the previous owner and re-registered by infringers to utilise the accumulated traffic for their trademark infringing e-shops. It was found that  read more