Francesca Allport
Francesca is a Solicitor with a wide range of disputes experience both as part of private practice and acting as part of inhouse counsel. She has advised on matters ranging from design right infringement to general commercial disputes. Francesca has been involved in a number of large litigation cases and has a good background in IP litigation. Francesca has previously been involved in multiple disputes involving large retail companies dealing with areas of law such as design right, copyright and trade marks.
Prior to joining Wedlake Bell, Francesca worked on secondment as part of the content litigation team at a well-known online social network service.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2022
Experience
- Deloitte Legal (2021 - 2022)
- Meta (2021 - 2022)
- Thomson Reuters (2020 - 2021)
- Kemp Little LLP (2016 - 2020)
- Blue Trinity Legal (2015 - 2016)
- Mishcon de Reya (2015 - 2015)
Qualifications
- LPC and MSc in Law, Business and Management (2018)
- LLB (2016)
- Bachelors degree history (2014)
Education
- University of Law (2018)
- London Metropolitan University (2016)
- University of Delaware (2014)
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PRACTICE NOTES
Domain names: legal and practical guide to registration strategy and dispute resolution (UDRP, Nominet, EURid, litigation), including ICANN and new gTLDs
This Practice Note covered the background to domain names, how registrations are obtained, and the practical and legal avenues and steps available for resolving domain name disputes.
What is a domain name?
Computers were around long before the internet. In the 1960s and 1970s, the US government financed work on linking computers and allowing people to communicate across different networks. The outcome was technology that enabled systems that were markedly unlike one another to connect through very lightweight mechanisms—namely, internet naming and addressing.
Over time, that architecture has underpinned ongoing advances in both infrastructure, including, for instance, a shift from copper wire to fibre optic cable, and from wired connections to wireless, and in applications, moving from static web pages to rich media and on to voice-over IP telephony, many of which developments were never even imagined by the internet’s original designers.
A domain name forms part of the internet’s transport layer; it is the internet’s naming and addressing system. Every computer or device that is connected to the internet is identified by an internet protocol (IP) address, for example 69.63.176.13...
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PRECEDENTS
UDRP letter before action for abusive domain name registration: cease, deactivate and transfer
[ date ] Dispatched by [ recorded delivery ] [ email ] to [ insert Respondent’s email address ][ Respondent’s name ][ Respondent’s address ]
Re: [ Disputed Domain Name ]—unauthorised use of [ Marks ]
Dear [ insert organisation name ]
We act on behalf of [ insert Client name and a brief description of its business ]. We are contacting you via the [ email address OR registered office address ] [ shown on the website (the Website) hosted by the domain [ insert details ] OR provided via Nominet in relation to a data release request ]. Our client is the owner of a number of registered [ and unregistered ] trade marks, including:
[ insert trade mark details including proprietor name, filing date, registration number, territory, classes covered, and mark details ]
Enclosed with this letter, as Annex 1, are copies of our client’s trade mark registrations together with examples evidencing use. [ Client name ] also holds the domain name [ Client’s domain name ] (‘ Client’s Domain ’)…
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