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DNattorney.com and The Muscovitch Law Firm
Zak Muscovitch has handled more contentious domain name disputes than any other lawyer
in the country and has set more precedents in this area of law than any other
lawyer in the country. He is recognized world-wide as a leader in this field
and has the record to prove it. He appears before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice,
the Federal Court of Canada, the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), the National
Arbitration Forum (NAF), the British
Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre (BCICAC), and Resolution Canada in Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) domain name disputes and appeals.
Zak Muscovitch was lead defense counsel in Toronto.com v. Sinclair c.o.b.
Friendship Enterprises (2000), wherein he successfully defended against the
first attempt in Federal Court to obtain an interlocutory injunction against a
domain name registrant. Zak Muscovitch was lead defense counsel in Easthaven, Ltd. v. Nutrisystem.com
Inc. (2001), the first decision in Canada to establish the convenient forum
for international domain name disputes involving a Canadian domain name
registrar. Zak Muscovitch was instructing counsel for the registrant of the
defendant domain name in Heathmount
A.E. Corp. v. Technodome.com (2002), which was the first in rem decision
under the US Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act and was successfully challenged
on the basis of jurisdiction. Zak Muscovitch was the successful
Applicant’s counsel in Black
v. Molson (CANADIAN.BIZ), the first ICANN appeal in Canada. Zak Muscovitch
has represented numerous clients from countries such as Sri Lanka, China,
England, Australia, United States, Belgium, South Africa, Korea, and Canada, in
over 40 ICANN domain name disputes. Zak represented the registrant of SHOES.BIZ
in the first “.biz” case involving an instance of Reverse Domain
Name Hijacking (2002). Zak Muscovitch represented the registrant in the first
successful challenge of a CIRA Complaint over the domain name, CHEAPTICKETS.CA
(2003).
Most recently he successfully defended CHEAPTICKETS.CA in the Federal Court of
Canada and at CIRA.
Zak represents both domain name registrants and trademark registrants. We love
domain name disputes. Contact us for a free consultation
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