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Covax

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When you register a unique domain, does it qualify as a Trademark or Intellectual Property?
I registered a domain in March of 2020, purposely registered for a project/brand in development.
In December 2020, another company registered the exact same domain and just included "the" as a prefix.
I don't have funding for trademark lawyers nor contesting the infringement.
This leads me to believe the large corporations can simply take your intellectual property and claim ownership based on technicalities?
Is this an infringement on my intellectual property rights? How do I fight this?
 
You probably don't.
The easiest and cheapest for you would have been to register any variation of said domain you wanted.
 
Interested in buying some domains?

I have TheCovax.co.za, BestCovax.co.za, and AllTheCovax.co.za
 
jsheed_sa said:
You probably don't.
The easiest and cheapest for you would have been to register any variation of said domain you wanted.
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Because it is such a unique brand, there is unfortunately no other variation, except for prefixing "the"
 
Covax said:
I have spoken to them, and the cost of filing a dispute is expensive.
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And you are likely going to lose the case as well.

Did they set up a physical website selling the same product as you? Did they in any other way claim to represent your business or product? If not, then you have no case. You should have registered all variants before hand.

Here is another example, bidorbuy.org. There is no way in which BidorBuy can claim ownership to the domain if someone registers it or uses it for something unrelated to BoB. In fact, BoB will not even be interested in the domain name at all, as long as it is not used to represent the company or business activities.
 
Covax said:
When you register a unique domain, does it qualify as a Trademark or Intellectual Property?
I registered a domain in March of 2020, purposely registered for a project/brand in development.
In December 2020, another company registered the exact same domain and just included "the" as a prefix.
I don't have funding for trademark lawyers nor contesting the infringement.
This leads me to believe the large corporations can simply take your intellectual property and claim ownership based on technicalities?
Is this an infringement on my intellectual property rights? How do I fight this?
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It's not an infringement and to fight them would cost 1. money and 2. proof it's infringement (onus on you)

no point even going further unless you have the above
 
The best you can do to protect your identity is to market your identity (which includes your domain name), allow your brand name to gain recognition.

No point to register any and all domains in its entirely to cover your trade interests. Unless it is done maliciously or to abuse and or exploit a known brand, there is no point to get upset over it.
 
Covax said:
Exactly my point, adding "the" to a domain is infringement on intellectual property
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did you register a trademark or copyright for the IP you supposedly own or did you spend R59 on a domain and expect full legal protection against any and all variations of the domain?
 
Datura said:
I see my registrar has covax.sucks for sale at a little over $200
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.sex
.best
.giving
.....

The TLD list is insane and serves only to enrich the farkers running them.

For brand protection some are a must but a domain is not sufficient to claim IP protection.

Domain arbitration helps lawyers buy houseboats.
 
If they register a domain name to park and sell it to you when it doesn't relate to their business,thats an infringement - like buying theappleiphone.co.za

You buying a domain and registering it could be used as _part_ of an Intellectual property dispute,but not as the sole basis as you didn't trademark it
 
waylander said:
rvZA said:
Sound pretty much exactly this.
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rvZA said:
Sound pretty much exactly this.
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rvZA said:
And you are likely going to lose the case as well.

Did they set up a physical website selling the same product as you? Did they in any other way claim to represent your business or product? If not, then you have no case. You should have registered all variants before hand.

Here is another example, bidorbuy.org. There is no way in which BidorBuy can claim ownership to the domain if someone registers it or uses it for something unrelated to BoB. In fact, BoB will not even be interested in the domain name at all, as long as it is not used to represent the company or business activities.
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It is 100% related, no mistake. again, it is an unmistakable domain wrt the product
rvZA said:
Sound pretty much exactly this.
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I asked for advice, not accusations.
 
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