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David
Taylor
Partner, Paris
david.taylor@hoganlovells.com
David Taylor is a partner in the Intellectual Property, Media and Technology Group. David has a Masters of Engineering from Birmingham University, UK, and a PhD in Physics from the INPG, Grenoble, France and is admitted to practice law at the English and Paris Bars.
He specialises in Internet related intellectual property, and in particular the protection of brands online covering trade mark and copyright issues, keywords and domain names. He also advises on data protection and privacy, intermediary liability, encryption regulation and security issues, software licensing and development agreements.
David heads up a specialist International Internet Domain Name Practice at Hogan Lovells covering global strategy, new gTLD advice, centralised registration, recuperation and management of client portfolios in over 200 ccTLDs and all gTLDs.
David is a Domain Name Panelist for the UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) deciding domain name disputes between parties. He is also a panelist for UK domain name disputes with Nominet, an arbitrator for .EU and the UDRP with the Czech Arbitration Court, a domain name panelist for .FR with CMAP (Centre de Médiation et d'Arbitrage de Paris) and an arbitrator for the Malaysian domain name .MY.
David has significant experience in the domain name industry dating back to 1997. He has advised many clients on numerous launches of TLDs over the last decade, (e.g. .INFO, .BIZ, .EU, .MOBI, .ASIA, and .TEL) including sunrise periods, launch procedures and validation of rights. David and has been attending ICANN meetings since 2000 and is a member of the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC), was a member of the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) set up by ICANN in March 2009 to propose and develop solutions to the issue of trademark protection in connection with the introduction of new gTLDs and currently is the IP representative for Europe on the ICANN GNSO Council and is a special advisor to the INTA Internet Committee.
David won the International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Award in 2011 in the Information Technology category for France, and has been selected for inclusion in the 2011 Who's Who Legal Internet, E-Commerce & Data Protection category for France. The team was also recognised in 2011 by Managing Intellectual Property, winning the European Firm of the Year for Internet and Domain names.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Filing the first every fully electronic UDRP case for a large European Telecoms client with WIPO.
- Advising a number of international companies with regards to data protection issues on a pan European basis as well as transfer of data outside France and the European Union.
- Drafting and negotiating a series of software licence and development agreements and advising on the same across a number of EU countries.
- Providing strategic advice to numerous clients on their global online strategy, portfolio management and domain name enforcement globally.
- Providing advice to several banks and other companies on French encryption regulations.
- Negotiating the purchase of several high value domain names during 2011 amounting to over $4 million.
Hogan Lovells Publications
March 2011
"Global Media and Communications Quarterly, Issue 2: Focus on Net Neutrality." GMC Quarterly, Hogan Lovells
01 March 2011
"The French Supreme Court confirms that Dailymotion and an aggregator of RSS flows are both hosting services providers." Hogan Lovells, Hogan Lovells
Published Works
14 DECEMBER 2011
"ICANN seeks independent objector." World Trademark Review Daily
13 DECEMBER 2011
"AFNIC not liable for failing to ‘freeze’ domain name." World Trademark Review Daily
22 NOVEMBER 2011
".fr’ and other French TLDs to open up to the EU." World Trademark Review Daily
15 NOVEMBER 2011
"UDRP complaints require more than simple assertions." World Trademark Review Daily
09 NOVEMBER 2011
"Lady Gaga fails to obtain transfer of ‘fan site’ domain name." World Trademark Review Daily
07 NOVEMBER 2011
"Free speech in UDRP cases: settled rules or context-based approach?" World Trademark Review Daily
19 OCTOBER 2011
"Registrar certification introduced for ‘.cz’ domain names." World Trademark Review Daily
18 OCTOBER 2011
"Online gaming company victorious in typosquatting cases." World Trademark Review Daily
17 OCTOBER 2011
"Decision illustrates flexible nature of burden of proof under UDRP." World Trademark Review Daily
14 OCTOBER 2011
"Domain name renewal may be equivalent to new registration in certain circumstances." World Trademark Review Daily
13 OCTOBER 2011
"No growing pains for domain names." World Trademark Review Daily
12 OCTOBER 2011
"Domain name transfer denied despite “little doubt” as to registrant’s bad faith." World Trademark Review Daily
20 SEPTEMBER 2011
"New decree for ‘.fr’ defines legitimate interest and bad faith." World Trademark Review Daily
19 SEPTEMBER 2011
"Google removes over 11 million ‘.co.cc’ websites from search results."
15 SEP¨TEMBER 2011
"Proposed changes to ‘.uk’ domain name registration periods." World Trademark Review Daily
13 SEPTEMBER 2011
"Cybercriminal takes ‘get rich click!’ advice too far." World Trademark Review Daily
12 SEPTEMBER 2011
"Registrants get the heebie-jeebies over ‘.gb.com’." World Trademark Review Daily
07 SEPTEMBER 2011
"Less than rosy outcome for law firm in UDRP complaints." World Trademark Review Daily
05 SEPTEMBER 2011
"Unsuccessful harvest for champagne producers’ representative body under UDRP." World Trademark Review Daily
08 JULY 2011
"Further Notice of Inquiry on IANA’s future contract published." World Trademark Review Daily
07 JULY 2011
"Anyone may now apply for ‘fundamental’ terms under ‘.fr’." World Trademark Review Daily
07 JULY 2011
"Administrator's statements not valid justification for registering domain names." World Trademark Review Daily
06 JULY 2011
"No room for approximation under the UDRP." World Trademark Review Daily
09 JUNE 2011
"Details of ‘.xxx’ sunrise procedure announced." World Trademark Review Daily
06 JUNE 2011
"Geographical name standing alone difficult to protect under UDRP." World Trademark Review Daily
23 MAY 2011
"Request for delegation of ‘.sx’ to be submitted to ICANN." World Trademark Review Daily
18 MAY 2011
"Alternative dispute resolution procedures for ‘.fr’ suspended." World Trademark Review Daily
17 MAY 2011
"Telnic to release short domain names." World Trademark Review Daily
11 MAY 2011
"Cybersquatting hits new heights." World Trademark Review Daily
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