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Fish & Richardson is a global law firm providing strategic counseling and litigation services to innovative clients who seek to protect and maximize the value of their intellectual property (IP). The firm has more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists practicing IP strategy and counseling, IP litigation, and commercial litigation.
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MarkMonitor, the world leader in enterprise brand protection and a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business, uses a SaaS delivery model to provide advanced technology and expertise that protects the revenues and reputations of the world's leading brands. In the digital world, brands face new risks due to the web's anonymity, global reach and shifting consumption patterns for digital content, goods and services. Customers choose MarkMonitor for its unique combination of industry-leading expertise, advanced technology and extensive industry relationships to preserve their marketing investments, revenues and customer trust. Learn more at www.markmonitor.com.
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NetNames is a leader of industry leading corporate domain name management, online brand protection, online security, anti-piracy and acquisitions services, the company is responsible for managing and protecting online brands for medium to large organizations, from all types of industries, across the globe.
Following the acquisition of Ascio Technologies and Envisional in 2007, and INDOM (France) in 2010, NetNames is Europe's largest domain name management and online brand protection specialist.
NetNames is an ICANN accredited Registrar with the ability to register domain names in all available suffixes worldwide. The company is headquartered in London, with additional offices in Cambridge, Copenhagen, Munich, New York, Los Angeles, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Zurich.
Read about the NetNames Group or contact us here.
Educational Underwriter
Domain name objections and/or disputes in the post New gTLD landscape will inevitably involve an increasingly large number of oft-recurring infringements,
committed by a host of unrelated entities (that are often difficult to track). It will therefore become particularly problematic for many brand owners to handle through
their normal sources of legal protection. Cybersquatting can range from severe and enterprise-crippling problems (e.g. a domain integrating an identical match to
one's trademark pointing to a competitor's site, and getting extensive consumer traffic) or others that are more an inconvenience, though if left unattended can eat
away at a company's ability to protect its brand. Unlike with traditional lawsuits, retaining a traditional law firm, with open-ended, hourly fee structures (and typically
very high overhead) will simply no longer feasible economically in the New gTLD realm. The volume and complexity created by so many new extensions depends
upon specialized expertise in effective management of the issues, but that also does so in a way to keep costs manageable. This requires not only:
* knowledge of the law (both pertaining to domain names and intellectual property generally) - to win the objection or dispute
* knowledge of the underlying technology - to identify and unmask cybersquatters who employ technical means to hide their activities, as well as
to quickly and efficiently finalize the actual domain transfer (once ordered)
* process-based knowledge - to allow efficient scaling and increased volume while keeping things budget-friendly
* an international focus - to address objections or disputes occurring in a variety locations throughout the world
Our firm possesses extensive expertise in ALL aspects of domain name legal protections, how domains are governed (from registrar to registry to
ICANN), how the underlying technology works (including transfers), how arbitration providers manage their objections and/or dispute proceedings,
and how these vary from country to country. THAT is what makes us different, and uniquely positioned to protect brandowners in the latest online
iteration of the proverbial ‘Wild West': new gTLDs.
Contact us today to see how we can help: newgtlddisputes.com
Keynote Luncheon Sponsor
PeopleBrowsr is a global provider of Social Data, Influence Analytics and more recently the Social Network Platform "Social OS". PeopleBrowsr has headquarters in San Francisco, California and offices in London, New York, and Sydney, Australia.The company has a datamine of over 1.5 petabytes of social media data collected since 2008, and offers advanced social and influence analytics to Brands and Consumers
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