The Respondent has been involved in various associations with partners to build a database of 360 by 360 degree iPIX image of hotels, conference facilities, restaurants, clubs, properties and holiday locations. (Response, p. 3.)
The Respondent is the owner of the domain name registered on June 2, 1998. ...
2002-07-17 - Case Details
Wedley, nothing in the subsequent events operates to mitigate the bad faith registration and use.
5.5 Further the spoiling use of the domain name has been indulged in so as to deprive the Complainant of their rightful use. Here the case of Panavision International L P. v. Dennis Toeppan et al, 141 F. 3d 1316, as cited in World Wrestling Federation was referred to. It is claimed that association of the domain name with a hairdressing business is a sham. ...
2001-04-05 - Case Details
Buffalo Wu, CA-00-00178-A (memorandum decision at p. 8)
Yahoo! has vigorously defended and policed the mark YAHOO! as evidenced by twelve prior UDRP decisions in its favor.
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2001-02-01 - Case Details
Consequently, if it is conceivable that due to some accidental omission such as if someone did not receive a message, so long as the omission is not a deliberate one, it might deserve another chance particularly when the stakes, financial, reputational or otherwise, are heavy.
6.5.Having said this the panelists in various UDRP proceedings have emphasized the expeditious nature of the whole procedure by using expressions such as:
-"more rapid and cost effective resolution of disputes".[Gordon
Sumner, p/k/a Sting v Michael Urvan (WIPO
Case No. D2000-0596) and Document Technologies , Inc. v International Electronic
Communications Inc. ...
2003-07-15 - Case Details
Y ello, en último término, en cuanto que el dominio,
al cumplir una función identificadora en el tráfico (vide
de nuevo Caso OMPI nº D2000-1314, o D2001-0321,
Teollisuuden Voima OY v. Jarno P. Vastamäki), induce al público
a pensar que existe una asociación indebida entre el titular del dominio
controvertido y el titular de la marca que es, al tiempo, el sujeto receptor
de las críticas de aquél. ...
2003-08-20 - Case Details
jeon sangkwon domainkiller" was informed by mail of the Complaint introduced concerning the domain name shuuemura.com: Annex [P]. The Complaints and its Exhibits were sent by DHL to WIPO, to the Registrar and to "jeon sangkwon domainkiller".
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2003-12-02 - Case Details
final4.org" from the Internet prior to the domain name transfer" referred to above, and (4) "the only reason" he registered the two domain names was "to obtain 1000 domain names for FrontRow’s [Respondents’] business plan" (citing Tab 1, p. 102). Halpern’s and Front & Center’s "close in time" registrations are not evidence of bad faith because they "did not receive notice of the complaint until after registration of the domain names ‘final-4.org’ and ‘final-4.net’."
...There are 114,141 web pages showing "Final Four" (citing Tab 17, p. 1407). The "‘Official NCAA’ FINAL FOUR website is clearly marked in this extraordinarily large list" (citing Tab 17, pp. 1406, 1409, 1414, 1428). ...
2000-12-15 - Case Details
By letter of October 14, 2005, Respondent through its counsel rejected this demand, but indicated that Respondent may be willing to assign the disputed domain name if the parties could agree on a price. Complaint, Annex P. By subsequent letter erroneously dated September 20, 2005, Complainant through its counsel reiterated its cease and desist and transfer demand. ...
2006-01-26 - Case Details
Because the list of circumstances that are evidence of bad faith provided in paragraph 4(b) is not intended to be exclusive, the Panel has reviewed each of Complainant’s additional allegations of Respondent’s bad faith.
First, Complainant states that “[p]rima facie evidence of bad faith can be seen in the fact that the Respondent only commenced registration of the Disputed Domain Name when he realized that Nominet had ordered the transfer of to the Complainant”. ...
2006-12-27 - Case Details
In discussing the application of paragraph 4(c)(i), it is well established that it is meant for clear cases of non-infringing use by the Respondent and not every prior use in domain name disputes constitutes a bona fide use: See Madonna Ciccone, p/k/a Madonna v. Dan Parisi and "Madonna.com",
WIPO Case No. D2000-0847.
Whether the Respondent had adopted the business name in good faith, as an honest adopter without any prior knowledge of the Complainant’s mark is a complex issue of fact. ...
2011-08-10 - Case Details
On behalf of the Panel, the Center issued Procedural Order No. 1 on July 14, 2011, denying Complainant's request for further briefing stating in part that the: “[P]anel will decide the dispute based on the submissions and record provided by the parties and as governed by the Rules and the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy." ...
2011-08-01 - Case Details
For somewhat similar statements, see Madonna Ciccone, p/k/a Madonna v. Dan Parisi and “Madonna.com”,
WIPO Case No. D2000-0847.
For these reasons, the Panel finds that the Complainant has established its case under paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy, and that the Respondent has not otherwise demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Panel rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain names.
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2011-04-05 - Case Details
The Complainant filed separate supplemental submissions on February 17, 2006, along with a slightly amended Complaint, and on February 25, 2006, the latter forwarded a “Request to file a Reply to the Complainant’s Multiple Responses” along with the Reply itself together with Annexes O and P. The Complainant also filed a supplemental submission on March 7, 2006.
The Center, after the last supplemental submission had been filed and through an e-mail letter dated March 10, 2006, notified the parties of the appointment of Mr. ...
2006-04-26 - Case Details
Torbjörn Hellerstad,
WIPO Case No. D2000-0146; Arla, ekonomisk förening v. P D S and Tony Lennartsson,
WIPO Case No. D2000-0151 and Union des associations européennes de football v. ...
2009-05-29 - Case Details
Thomas McCarthy, McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition (4th ed. 2005) §31:10, p. 31-35 and cases cited therein (in common law, the defense of laches bars the recovery of damages incurred before the filing of a lawsuit; this does not apply to injunctive relief in a trademark action that seeks to avoid future confusion in the marketplace).
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2007-09-21 - Case Details
It would therefore be, for Internet users interested in the product, the most dominant feature of the domain names and would colour their perception as to what the domain names were referring to, as was the case in PepsiCo, Inc v. PEPSI, SRL (a/k/a P/E/P.S.I.) and EMS COMPUTER INDUSTRY ( a/k/a/ EMS),
WIPO Case No. D2003-0696, also cited by the Complainant.
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2007-09-05 - Case Details
On November 14, 2006, Complainant's outside counsel sent another cease and desist letter (a copy of which appears in Exhibit P to the Complaint) to the Respondent. By this point in time, the Complainant learned that Respondent also had registered, without authorization from the Complainant, the domain names , and , each of which directed Internet users to the Respondent's website located at . ...
2007-10-09 - Case Details
The right to disseminate criticism on the Internet cannot trump the public’s right not to be deceived by a confusingly similar domain name.” (§ 31.148.50, p. 31-251)
Further:
“[U]se of the trademark of a company in the domain of a site that is devoted to criticizing or complaining about that company will constitute infringement if there is some commercial aspect...
2007-09-28 - Case Details
The Respondent is Virtual Point Inc., of United States of America, represented by Wakino Brett P., of United States of America.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name (the “Domain Name”) is registered with TierraNet d/b/a DomainDiscover.
3. ...
2008-10-06 - Case Details
Four such actors have filed complaints under the UDRP and prevailed in relation to their stage names (citing inter alia Ice-T (Tracy Marrow p/k/a "ICE-T" v. iceT.com a/k/a Sverrir Geirmundsson,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1234); Carmen Electra (Carmen Electra, a/k/a Tara Leigh Patrick v. ...
2009-01-12 - Case Details