Practice Areas
Trademark law, digital brand protection, domain name dispute resolution, and marketplace adjudication.
Professional Experience
- Dispute Adjudication & Fact-Finding: Quasi-judicial evaluation of evidence, contract interpretation, fraud investigation, and bad-faith assessment under pressure.
- UDRP & DNS Jurisprudence: In-depth knowledge of bad faith registration/use, legitimate fair use, criticism sites, RDNH, and domain/trademark intersections.
- Regulatory & Rules Drafting: Proven draftsman of operational trading rules, codes of conduct, and international consignment frameworks. Author of institutional Codes of Conduct and Trading Rules governing international market participants and trading on the RapNet Diamond Trading ecosystem.
- Marketplace Adjudication & Compliance: Extensive experience conducting forensic evidence reviews and analysis, managing hearings/investigations, enforcing codes of conduct, and issuing binding sanctions (suspensions/expulsions).
- Procedural Efficiency & Fairness: Dedicated to strict deadline compliance, conflict disclosures, clear evidentiary standards, and enforceable written decisions.
Arbitration Experience
JMB DAVIS BEN-DAVID | Jerusalem & Modiin, Israel | IP Bou que Firm specializing in Patents, Trademarks, Designs
& Domain Names
Of Counsel Intellectual Property & Brand Enforcement | [Oct 2025 – Present]
Managing Attorney of the Trademarks, Designs and Domain Names Department | [July 2021- September 2025]
- Operating in an “Of Counsel” capacity, ensuring complete structural independence from corporate client conflicts for neutral arbitral appointments.
- Formerly managed the firm s Trademark Department [2021- September 2025] directing a team of five trademark attorneys and paralegals in international trademark prosecution, global portfolio management, registration, renewals and contentious enforcement.
- Spearheaded international trademark enforcement strategies, digital asset tracking, platform takedowns, and domain name dispute management and enforcement across gTLDs and ccTLDs.
- Formulated legal tracking and defense frameworks for complex digital identifiers, trade secrets, and unfair competition matters.
Professional and Other Activities
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers): Applicant, Independent Objector Panel, New gTLD Program | 2026 Round
Intellectual Property Community
o INTA (International Trademark Association)
o ABA (American Bar Association & IP Section Member Associate Member)
Academic Qualifications
Admitted to the Bar: Israel Bar Association / Israel, 2005
Admitted as Attorney, Notary and Conveyancer to the High Court of South Africa (now non-practising), 1983.
Law Degree: Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) [University of Cape Town (South Africa), 1981]
Continuing Legal Education & ADR Certifications: Specialized training in international commercial arbitration, mediation, and IP dispute resolution
Panellist Workshop Training:
o Participant CIIDRC – UDRP Panellist Workshops-2023,2024 & 2025
o Participant ADNDRC Practice Development Workshops- 2024,2025 & 2026