It’s emazing! 300 Not Out

On 25 August 2015, Matthew Harris, Waterfront’s joint head of Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution gave his 300^th judgment in a domain name case.

Matthew was first appointed as a WIPO Panelist for Domain Name disputes by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva in 2002 and subsequently was appointed to similar roles at Nominet and the Czech Arbitration Court.

Over the course of the last 13 years Matthew has either made or been part of a panel that made decisions involving approximately 500 domain names and 3 new gTLDs.

Although his 300^th decision was two weeks ago, it has only recently become publically available. The case involved a dispute between Dutch company and a US individual over rights in the  domain name. The decision was unusual in that it included a rare finding of “reverse domain name hijacking”.