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What Domain Names Get Transferred: Why and Why Not?
Think of trademarks situated on a continuum with famous and well-known at one end and less well-known or unrecognized by average consumers at the other. On one end there is certainty of infringement, Koppers, Inc., Koppers Delaware, Inc. v. Jorge Villalva, D2018-0764 (WIPO May 10, 2018) () as well as other well-known marks such as Accenture, Agfa, Northface, Carrefour, Virgin, and Chatroulette; at the other end, certainty of having the complaint denied either for lack of proof or overreaching, Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc., v. Domain Admin / Mighty Products, Inc. FA1804001780243 (Forum May 25, 2018) ( as well as other marks composed from generic elements and used according to their meaning, such as Secret and Dribble (dictionary words), AEX (random letters), Rioja (geographic), and Insure My Food and My Boutique (common phrases).
More likely than not complainants with strong marks prevail and those with weak marks will not. As the mark descends the scale in strength, complainants must marshal ever more persuasive evidence that they have an actionable claim, as did Philip Morris Products in persuading the Panel to look at the content of the website. The results are predictable in unexceptional cases: complainants prevail on proof of abusive registration; and lose because their proof falls short of establishing abusive registration. Respondents prevail when their registrations are lawful; and lose when their arguments for good faith registrations lack merit and are indefensible.
Marks composed of terms having deep market penetration internationally—AGFA-Gevaert N.V. v. Ums United Medical System, D2018-0713 (WIPO May 7, 2018) ()—or whose marks are composed of parts not commonly associated together even though ordinary dictionary words—Coolmath.com LLC v. Kenan Yazici, Cenebaz.com, D2018-0646 (WIPO May 1, 2018) (COOL MATH and <newcoolmath.com>) have a lighter burden than marks composed of generic or common lexical parts—NLY Scandinavia AB v. Alexander Tchousov, PS Pay Solutions UG, D2018-0498 (WIPO May 8, 2018) (NELLY and ).
The Complainant asks the Panel to infer that the Respondent must have registered the disputed domain name in the knowledge of the Complainant's trademark and with the intention of taking unfair advantage of the goodwill attaching to that mark. However, while the Complainant asserts that its AGFA trademark is famous worldwide, it has produced no evidence of its trading or of the reputation of its trademark.
A complainant should not expect a UDRP panel to have knowledge of the reputation of its trademark and the Complainant in this proceeding has taken a significant risk by failing to exhibit the evidence in question.
Fortunately for AGFA-Gevaert the Panel found other evidence in the exhibits. The better practice, though, is to allege rights in the complaint supported by documentary evidence in the Annexes.
Respondent has been utilizing the disputed domain name as a parking page for PPC advertising links. [However,] [n]one of the links appear to be related to Complainant, its trademark or its business. Instead, the links seem to reflect descriptive matters that one might search for on the Internet, such as "games" and "movies." Because these links are sufficiently related to a website that offers "smart" "search" on the Internet, and because none of the links are related to Complainant or its personnel staffing program, the Panel finds that Complainant has failed to establish that Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
the Complainant's figurative trademark consists of a generic term "secret" in stylized format. The Panel notes that the Complainant has no trademark registrations for "Secret" on its own without stylization. Such figurative mark does not provide the Complainant with registered trademark rights to the word "Secret" on its own.
there is no evidence that the Respondent was aware of the Complainant or its trademark rights prior to the Respondent's registration of the disputed domain name. Further, and contrary to the claim made by the Complainant, the content of the website does not suggest any connection between the model ["Nelly"] that is depicted on the website and the Complainant's business, and there is no indication that the disputed domain name is used to capitalize or otherwise take commercial advantage of the Complainant's trademark rights or is used with the intention of disrupting the Complainant's business.
notwithstanding the weaknesses in the Respondent's case, the Panel has not been given a good reason to conclude that, whenever the Respondent registered the disputed domain name, it most likely did so with reference to the Complainant's trademarks, rather than (a) purely for its geographical meaning, as the Respondent claims or (b) more likely, but also uncontroversial in the context of this case, because it reflected a kind of wine which emanated from a particular region and bore a particular style or quality.
[t]he three-letter string is not especially distinctive. "EX" is used as an abbreviation for a financial "exchange" in many contexts, as in "AMEX" for the American Stock Exchange and "FOREX" for foreign exchange. "AEX" could indeed be suggestive of an automated exchange, as the Respondent claims…. [Moreover,] [t]he Complainant's website provides information about traditional capital markets and stock exchanges, while the Respondent's website is a trading platform for nontraditional cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether.
This principle of assessing short letter strings as good faith registrations when they are capable of having multiple associations is deeply embedded in the jurisprudence; AEX is simply the latest example. In descending order of strength, when complainants' claims are denied it is because they either fail to satisfy their burden or respondents have satisfied theirs in establishing rights or legitimate interests in the domain names. It might be noted that in all these cases, the great value of these decisions is educational in the best sense; Panels try to make it as clear as possible Why and Why Not complaints for cybersquatting are dismissed. Parties and their representatives should listen carefully!
Mr. Levine is the author of a treatise on trademarks, domain names, and cybersquatting, Domain Name Arbitration, A Practical Guide to Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. (Legal Corner Press, 2015). Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Supplement and Update through August 2016 published January 2017. A Second Edition of the treatise is scheduled for publication December 2018. If you purchased the First Edition, you can buy the Second Edition 60% off list price by contacting inquiries@legalcornerpress.com or gmlevine@researchtheworld.com. The discount will not be available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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Q: Android speech recognizing and audio recording in the same time My application records audio using MediaRecorder class in AsyncTask and also use Google API transform speech to text - Recognizer Intent - using the code from this question : How can I use speech recognition without the annoying dialog in android phones
I have tried also to record audio in Thread, but this is worse solution. It causes more problems. My problem is that my application works properly on emulator. But emulator don't supports speech reocognition because of lack of voice recognition services. And on my device my application has crash when I starts recording audio and speech reognizing - "has stopped unexpectedly". However when I have wifi turned off, application works properly like on emulator.
Recording audio requires in AndroidManifest:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />

and speech recognition requiers:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

I suppose this is problem with single audio input? How can I resolve this problem?
Google Speech Recognizer requiers to work in main UI thread, so I can't for example do it in Async Task. So I have audio recording in Async Task. I don't have idea why this causes problems.
I have connected my device to Eclipse and I have used USB debugging. And this is execption I have in LogCat:
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403): Activity go.android.Activity has leaked ServiceConnection android.speech.SpeechRecognizer$Connection@48181340 that was originally bound here
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403): android.app.ServiceConnectionLeaked: Activity go.android.Activity has leaked ServiceConnection android.speech.SpeechRecognizer$Connection@48181340 that was originally bound here
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ActivityThread$PackageInfo$ServiceDispatcher.<init>(ActivityThread.java:1121)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ActivityThread$PackageInfo.getServiceDispatcher(ActivityThread.java:1016)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ContextImpl.bindService(ContextImpl.java:951)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.content.ContextWrapper.bindService(ContextWrapper.java:347)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.speech.SpeechRecognizer.startListening(SpeechRecognizer.java:267)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at go.android.Activity.startRecordingAndAnimation(Activity.java:285)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at go.android.Activity.onResume(Activity.java:86)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnResume(Instrumentation.java:1151)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.Activity.performResume(Activity.java:3823)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:3118)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:3143)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2684)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:858)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
08-23 14:50:03.528: ERROR/ActivityThread(12403):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

And after that another exception:
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412): Failed to create session
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412): com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.ConnectionException: POST failed
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.SpeechServiceHttpClient.post(SpeechServiceHttpClient.java:176)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.SpeechServiceHttpClient.post(SpeechServiceHttpClient.java:88)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.ServerConnectorImpl.createTcpSession(ServerConnectorImpl.java:118)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.ServerConnectorImpl.createSession(ServerConnectorImpl.java:98)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.RecognitionController.runRecognitionMainLoop(RecognitionController.java:679)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.RecognitionController.startRecognition(RecognitionController.java:463)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.RecognitionController.access$200(RecognitionController.java:75)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.RecognitionController$1.handleMessage(RecognitionController.java:300)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412): Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.harmony.luni.net.PlainSocketImpl.read(PlainSocketImpl.java:564)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.harmony.luni.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:88)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.fillBuffer(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:103)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.readLine(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:191)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultResponseParser.java:82)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:174)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:179)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultClientConnection.java:235)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:259)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:279)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:121)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:410)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:555)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:487)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:465)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at android.net.http.AndroidHttpClient.execute(AndroidHttpClient.java:243)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     at com.google.android.voicesearch.speechservice.SpeechServiceHttpClient.post(SpeechServiceHttpClient.java:167)
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/ServerConnectorImpl(12412):     ... 10 more
08-23 14:50:08.000: ERROR/RecognitionController(12412): Ignoring error 2

A: I got a solution that is working well to have speech recognizing and audio recording. Here is the link to a simple Android project I created to show the solution's working. Also, I put some print screens inside the project to illustrate the app.
I'm gonna try to explain briefly the approach I used. I combined two features in that project: Google Speech API and Flac recording.
Google Speech API is called through HTTP connections. Mike Pultz gives more details about the API:
"(...) the new [Google] API is a full-duplex streaming API. What this means, is that it actually uses two HTTP connections- one POST request to upload the content as a "live" chunked stream, and a second GET request to access the results, which makes much more sense for longer audio samples, or for streaming audio."
However, this API needs to receive a FLAC sound file to work properly. That makes us to go to the second part: Flac recording
I implemented Flac recording in that project through extracting and adapting some pieces of code and libraries from an open source app called AudioBoo. AudioBoo uses native code to record and play flac format.
Thus, it's possible to record a flac sound, send it to Google Speech API, get the text, and play the sound that was just recorded.
The project I created has the basic principles to make it work and can be improved for specific situations. In order to make it work in a different scenario, it's necessary to get a Google Speech API key, which is obtained by being part of Google Chromium-dev group. I left one key in that project just to show it's working, but I'll remove it eventually. If someone needs more information about it, let me know cause I'm not able to put more than 2 links in this post.

A: Late Answer, but for the first Exception, You have to destroy Your SpeechRecognizer after this what You want has done, for example (in onStop() or onDestroy() or directly after You don´t need the SpeechRecognizer anymore):
    if (YourSpeechRecognizer != null)
    {
        YourSpeechRecognizer.stopListening();
        YourSpeechRecognizer.cancel();
        YourSpeechRecognizer.destroy();
    }

A: I have successfully accomplished this with the help of CLOUD SPEECH API.
 You can find it's demo by google speech.

The API recognizes over 80 languages and variants, to support your
  global user base. You can transcribe the text of users dictating to an
  application's microphone, enable command-and-control through voice, or
  transcribe audio files, among many other use cases. Recognize audio
  uploaded in the request, and integrate with your audio storage on
  Google Cloud Storage, by using the same technology Google uses to
  power its own products.

It uses audio buffer to transcribe data with help of Google Speech API. I have used this buffer to store Audio recording with help of AudioRecorder.
So with this demo we can transcribe user's speech parallely with Audio Recording.
In this, it starts and stops speech recognition based on voice. It also gives a facility of SPEECH_TIMEOUT_MILLIS in VoiceRecorder.java which is just same as EXTRA_SPEECH_INPUT_COMPLETE_SILENCE_LENGTH_MILLIS of RecognizerIntent, but user controlled.
So all in all, you can specify silence timeout and based on that it will stop after user output and start again as soon as user starts speaking.

A: Recent projects on 'google-speech' and on 'android-opus' (opuslib) allow simple, concurrent recognition along with audio record to an opus file in android ext. storage.
Looking at the VoiceRecorder in the speech project , with only a few extra lines of code after reading the microphone buffer, the buffer can also be consumed by a fileSink (PCM16 to Opus-codec) in addition to the current speech-observer.
see minimal merge of the 2 projects above in Google-speech-opus-recorder

A: I haven't tested this solution yet but maybe there is a possibility. In http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/RecognitionService.Callback.html there is method void bufferReceived(byte[] buffer). The possible solution is to saving this recived buffer in AudioRecord Android class. It has method like read(byte[] audioData, int offsetInBytes, int sizeInBytes). So maybe it is possible to connect this two utilities in this way? Problems might have occurred with configuring AudioRecord and with converting the result to mp3 or wav format after recording.

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As thousands converge in Potocari today for the funeral prayers of over 400 bodies and the 19th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, we are once again reminded of the lengths that man could potentially go to when immersed in a state of fear, hatred and division.
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Today is the third Thursday of the month: Meeting Day. There are about 20 of us arranged around a few tables in one of the local restaurants, sipping cappuccinos and other morning drinks. We are couples, parts of couples, single women and one single male. We are on Sabbatical, and on leave; retired professionals, academicians and civil servants; writers and artists in search of new ideas and cheaper digs: pretty much the same cross-section of leisured folk that you will find in most south-of-the-border destinations, lounging about on a weekday morning.
We are given cards to fill out: name, address, phone number, what you are interested in doing, or have to offer to others, or are looking for. We are given more cards: know a "good" plumber, or carpintero, or...?
Our co-chairs talk briefly about the concept of getting together to pass the chisme (gossip; rumor; stories) around. That's my word, not theirs. They see it more as helping each other avoid some of the pitfalls, a worthy and useful goal. I, being the world weary and cynical traveler you have all come to know and love, am less certain about any "truth" about anything, especially things like what the Hacienda (treasury dept) will or won't do on any given day, or which service person does or does not show up on time.
Actually, this is the part I like best: getting to know a little something about the people who come here (or at least a little something about what they want me to "know": see what I mean about being cynical?), and what they are looking for now that they are here.
The meeting is thrown open for questions and discussion. First topic: what should you pay a maid? We share experiences for several minutes, and finally arrive at a figure. Roughly summarized, we decide it is more than our landlady pays, and less than we thought.
Next topic is "should we hire an 'expediter' to help with immigration papers", and the answer is: it depends how much you are willing to pay to avoid the hassles, many of which are enumerated by those among us who have lived through them, and some of which approach my idea of living in the twilight zone. I will not deny other people's reality, but it sometimes bears only a peripheral resemblance to my own.
As we work our way through what I have come to see as a standard list - how to purify vegies, how much to pay for a taxi, where to get balsamic vinegar, whether to import your car or buy one locally - my thoughts wander. I reflect that many of the people at this meeting were pupils of mine; that the questions they are answering now are questions that they were asking, scant months or years ago. Now, here they are, "old Oaxaca hands", handing out their own wisdom. Somehow, somewhere, the balance has shifted: I am checking my reality out against theirs, now. It's a slightly discombobulating experience.
A lot of folks have dropped in to my "Orientation To Oaxaca" seminar over the years, and a few have stayed here to fashion a life for themselves. Some have become friends. Most have become buen conocidos (good acquaintances). All have gone off on their own hook, and have their own opinions, based on their own experiences. Many, much to Diana's chagrin and (to a lesser extent) my own, are more comfortable with formal structures like meetings and clubs.
I knew when I moved here that the Oaxaca I encountered then would change with time. (Everything does, even dead gold figures from Monte Alban, encased in climate-controlled glass cases.) And so it has, perhaps faster than I thought it would. For better and for worse, Oaxaca has become a "destination", with soaring rents and balsamic vinegar; smoked meats and a sushi bar; expediters and abundant Spanish tutors; masseuses and psychotherapists; Orientation classes and Meetings. It takes some getting used to.
Still, the bureaucracy remains relatively uncorrupted, the police are rarely the criminals, the vendors give the correct change, and everyone seems friendly. The musicians still perform traditional tunes as they wander the bars and restaurants, the demonstrations still go on in front of the government palace, and the Library functions as usual. And while we do have a Meeting, we don't have a Welcome Wagon, an American Chamber of Commerce chapter, or an American Legion post.