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The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world
like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio
and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of
capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting
capability, a mechanism for disseminating information, and an open
forum allowing collaboration and free exchange of ideas between
individuals and their computers without regard for geographic
location.
Today people can search thousands
of databases and libraries worldwide in several languages, browse through
hundreds of millions of documents, journals, books and computer programs,
and keep up to the minute with wire service news, sports and weather
reports. All this is done via a global
network of interconnected computers that allows individuals and
organizations around the world to communicate and share information. The "web," a collection of information resources contained in
documents located on individual computers, is the most widely used and
fastest-growing part of the Internet.
A web site consists of at least
one, and often many, interconnected web pages. Web pages are computer data
files written in Hypertext Markup Language ("HTML") that contain information
such as text, pictures, sounds and video recordings. Web pages also usually
contain connections ("hyperlinks") to other web pages on the same site and
to linked web sites of others.
Web page
browsing and linking are made possible through the use of web addresses in
the form of unique domain names.
Many times, owners want to use
their trademarks as domain names too. Often that is possible, but sometimes
another party has prior rights to the trademark or the domain name, and a
conflict may arise. These conflicts can sometimes be resolved amicably, or one
party may buy out the rights of the other, but frequently these disputes are
settled by arbitration or by court order.
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Our domain name practice:
• selecting, clearing and
registering domain names
• resolving domain name disputes by abitration in WIPO
and NAF
• resolving domain name disputes
in Federal District Court
• assigning and transferring domain names
• meta tag disputes
• web development and hosting agreements
• advertising and sponsorship agreements
• website terms and conditions
• developing and implementing privacy policies
• consulting services agreements
• proprietary rights agreements See related subjects:
Trademarks
Brand
TM Searching
Contact Griggs Bergen LLP to schedule a confidential
consultation.

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