LinkedIn profile kill Bigfoot’s future UDRP chances? — Does this

Attorney states his role includes “manipulation of TMs and common law marks to achieve UDRP “reverse domain name hijacking”.

The prior week I wrote regarding Bigfoot Entertainment and firms affiliated with its owner.

Today I came across one of Bigfoot Entertainment’s lawyer’s profiles on LinkedIn. I’m a bit dumbfounded.

This is what Marco Notarnicola claims one of his responsibilities is at Bigfoot:

co-existence, consent agreements, etc. to ensure creative resolution of IP disputes, counting manipulation of TMs and common law marks to achieve UDRP “reverse domain name hijacking”.

Wait–what? Is this guy bragging regarding manipulating trademarks to reverse hijack domain names through UDRP?

If so, it seems pretty dumb to put that on your LinkedIn profile. Anyone who gets hit with a UDRP from Bigfoot or a related firm can put this in their UDRP response.

I reached out to Notarnicola regarding this and will update the story if I hear back.

Update 8/23/16: Notarnicolo has updated the sentence to read: “co-existence, consent agreements, etc. to ensure creative resolution of IP disputes, counting manipulation of TMs and common law marks to recognize cases of UDRP “reverse domain name hijacking”.”

So instead of “achieve”, it states “recognize cases of”.

It doesn’t make much sense to me. How would you manipulate TMs to “recognize” cases of RDNH? Furthermore, why didn’t his peer Romon Popov, who filed the UDRP for Slized.com, “recognize” that he had filed a RDNH case?

I have not heard back from my email to Notarnicolo yet.

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