Tata Motors, the Indian can manufacturer, has filed 3 UDRP cases in recent months, and has lost two of them. First it was the incredible case of Harrier.com, which is a generic domain registered many moons ago. Tata Motors lost that UDRP with flying co...
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November 27, 2018 DomainGang
.tata, Domain Law, Tata Motors, Tata UDRP, TataInvest.com
The Chinese registrant of TataCoin.com used an interesting defense at the WIPO. TATA Motors, the Indian company that is rolling out the Harrier car, lost a UDRP it filed against TataCoin.com. The Respondent claimed the mark isn’t known in China, ...
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November 26, 2018 DomainGang
.tata, crypto domains, Domain Law, tata coin, Tata Motors, tatacoin.com
Digiti.com, a domain registered in 2002, was challenged via the UDRP process at the WIPO. The Complainant, DIGITI limited liability company of Zandhoven, Belgium, provided no information about its business other than the fact that it owns European Unio...
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November 20, 2018 DomainGang
digiti, digiti.com, Domain Law, RDNH, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
A company that generated $320 million dollars in 2017 tried to wrestle away VGuard.com, a domain registered in 2004. V-Guard Industries Limited of Vennala, India, asserted that its mark is famous as the company was formed in 1977. Operating from vguard...
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November 19, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Vguard, VGuard.com
The registrant of the domain Pret.app just won the UDRP dispute that was filed by the holder of 480 trademarks, Pret A Manger (Europe) Limited of London, United Kingdom. The word “pret” means “ready” in French, and the Responden...
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November 15, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Pret, Pret.app
Panelist cops out of finding RDNH. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panelist decided it was “not necessary” to make a reverse domain name hijacking finding on a dead-on-arrival cybersquatting dispute. WEDIA SA of Paris, France filed the dispute against the owner of Wedia.com. The domain was registered in 1997 by a Japanese company that […]
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November 13, 2018 Andrew Allemann
Policy & Law, wedia sa, wedia.com
Wedia.com is a domain registered in 1997; twenty-one years later, a French company attempted to wrestle it away from its Japanese registrant via the UDRP process. After offering $3,000 dollars to the Registrant and not hearing back, WEDIA SA of Paris, ...
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November 13, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, wedia, wedia.com
Legally.com, a generic domain registered in 1997, was challenged via the UDRP process. The aged domain was offered for sale via Afternic, for $24,999 dollars. That’s hardly a bank breaker for a buyer in the legal services business, but in this ca...
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November 12, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Legally.com
Blackhawks.com is a generic domain registered in 1995, and 23 years later it’s lost via the UDRP process at the WIPO. The Complainant in this case is none other than the Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Team, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois, aka “Blackha...
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November 8, 2018 DomainGang
Blackhawks.com, Domain Law
Registered in 1998, the three letter domain AEX.com was challenged via the UDRP process. The Complainant in this case, Euronext N.V. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, asserted rights to the AEX mark due to a Benelux mark: “The Complainant is a compa...
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November 7, 2018 DomainGang
AEX.com, Domain Law