cease and desist notice<\/a>, accusing the website for cyber-piracy under the US Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. According to the notice the usage of Trump\u2019s name in the domain is a \u201cblatant and unauthorized use of his trademark\u201d. The cease and desist notice further states that the Boston-based website should stop using the domain name immediately, and transfer the same to the client (Donald Trump).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s legal team has always pursued such domain name issues aggressively. Every year the organization acquires thousands of domain names which have different combinations of the presidential candidate\u2019s trademarks. That is not all; they have also registered websites with the names of his children and grandchildren. Eric Trump, Donald Trump\u2019s son, states that this seemingly indiscriminate acquisition of domain names is a smart business strategy to protect their IP from squatters. This overbearing business strategy according to him is a better way to deal with cybersquatting issues than UDRP process set up by ICANN. UDRP, he says, is a waste of time and the answer to the problem is a preemptive acquisition strategy.<\/p>\n
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Well we can’t predict how the presidential race will pan out. But one thing we can predict is that Donald Trump\u2019s legal and business strategy will only get more aggressive. Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers recently threatened a conservative Club for Growth with a lawsuit, for advertisements criticizing the candidate.<\/p>\n
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The Trump Organization recently targeted a website for using Donald Trump\u2019s name in its domain, alleging cybersquatting under US law. This reflects Trump\u2019s ongoing legal strategy to protect his trademarks through proactive domain acquisition and legal notices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[7518,1753,7517,2267,5,7519,101,7520],"class_list":["post-30142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-trademarks","tag-anti-cybersquatting-act","tag-cybersquatting","tag-domain-names","tag-donald-trump","tag-intellectual-property","tag-legal-strategy","tag-trademark-law","tag-us-presidential-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133412,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142\/revisions\/133412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}