According to Claimant's inquiry,
the Respondent is actually living in Desenzano del Garda, Italy (Annex P).
- that the Complainant attempted several times to contact the Respondent (Annex
L, M, N, O) but Respondent never replied.
...According to the Complainant's inquire, it appears that the Respondent lives
in Italy (Annex P).The cross words magazine "La Settimana Enigmistica" is unquestionably
very well-known in Italy. ...
2001-06-05 - Case Details
Accordingly,
the Center notified the Respondent’s default on November 29, 2002.
The Center appointed Howard P. Knopf as the sole panelist in this matter on
December 4, 2002. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted.
...Decision
For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with Paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy
and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain names
and be transferred to the Complainant.
Howard P. Knopf
Sole Panelist
Date: December 18, 2002
1. See Ticketmaster Corporation v. Dmitri
Prem, WIPO Case No. ...
2002-12-23 - Case Details
D2000-0135)
Legitimate Rights or Interests
Respondent states he registered the domain name "for my nephew’s birthday so he and his friends could have a "neat" email address and a website to show off their "rollerblading" pictures (Response, p.1).
This Panel does not see the slightest indication of a legitimate trademark interest in this Response that would allow Respondent to claim a legitimate right or interest in this disputed domain name. ...The Policy 4(b) allows this Panel to look at all the circumstances of the Case at hand, not just the specifically enumerated instances of bad faith in the Policy.
Moreover, at one point in his Response (p.1), Respondent states: "Rollerblade the company has made no effort to acquire the from me or offer any restitution…….If Rollerblade the company would have approached me with the intent of coming to some kind of mutual agreement I would have let them have the site in exchange for an item of their product line and a tee-shirt for my nephew. ...
2000-06-28 - Case Details
This entitles the Administrative Panel to draw any such inferences from such default as it considers appropriate pursuant to Paragraph 14 (b) of the Rules (see e.g. Cases No. D2000-0009, p. 6 or D-2000-0867, p. 6).
As a matter of fact and failing evidence to the contrary, the Complainant has not granted any license or otherwise permitted the Respondent to use his trademark or to apply for any domain name incorporating the said mark.
...
2001-01-22 - Case Details
Claimant 1 holds rights in the following VITA trademarks:
- VITA, a Swiss semi-figurative trademark Nr. P-402283, registered on June 15, 1993, with priority to 1923 for class 36, in the form of a blue logo made of a circle with the “vita” word written within the circle;
- VITA, a semi-figurative trademark registered internationally on the basis of the above Swiss semi-figurative trademark Nr. ...P-402283 registered on June 15, 1993;
- An application for a VITA word Community trademark Nr. 3785938 made on April 21, 2004, for products and services of classes 16, 35, 36, 38, 41, 42.
...
2005-09-15 - Case Details
Elle est notamment titulaire des marques suivantes :
- BANCAMIGROS, marque suisse No. P-414501 avec priorité au 20 janvier 1958,
- BANCAMIGROS, marque internationale ayant pour base la marque ci-dessus et couvrant l’Italie,
- BANQUE MIGROS, marque suisse No. P-414502 avec priorité au 20 janvier 1958,
- BANQUE MIGROS, marque internationale No. 631422 ayant pour base la marque ci-dessus et couvrant le Benelux et la France,
- MIGROS, marque suisse de service No. ...
2008-04-04 - Case Details
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
LEGO Juris A/S v. P N S Enterprises
Case No. D2009-0170
1. The Parties
The Complainant is LEGO Juris A/S of Billund, Denmark, represented by Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services AB, Sweden.
The Respondent is P N S Enterprises of Key West, Florida, United States of America.
2. The disputed domain names and Registrar
The disputed domain names and are registered with GoDaddy.com, Inc.
3. ...
2009-04-09 - Case Details
A careful consideration of the particular facts of this case produces the following outcome. The inclusion of the alphabetic characters “p”, “i”, “c” and “k” has an effect that goes beyond merely preceding the Complainant's trademark UPS ONLINE with four letters. ...This is because the natural reading of the Complainant's trademark UPS is as the acronym for the Complainant (i.e. as the alphabetic letters “u”, “p” and “s”), and the natural reading of the Complainant's trademark UPS ONLINE is as the acronym for the Complainant succeeded by the descriptive word “online”. ...
2010-02-22 - Case Details
The Disputed Domain Name, , incorporates the misspelled AXIS trademark with addition of one English letter "p", and the gTLD ".com". The only distinctive part of the Disputed Domain Name is "axsi", the difference between "axsi" and the AXIS trademark is that the second and third letters are inverted. ...Unasi, Inc.,
WIPO Case No. D2005-0556). The addition of the letter "p" and the gTLD ".com" cannot distinguish the Disputed Domain Name from the Complainant's AxXIS trademark.
...
2015-02-17 - Case Details
Basically, the following factors were considered (see BGer 4A_128/2012, 07.08.2012, "Vogue"; BGE 128 III 146 "Audi"; BGE 124 III 277 "Nike"; BGE 116 II 463 "Coca Cola"; BGE 130 III 748, "Nestlé"; Philippe Gilliéron, in: Jacques de Werra (Ed.), Marques notoires et de haute renommée / Famous and Famous Trademarks, Zurich 2011, p. 37-72; Gregor Bühler, Protection of famous trademarks, in: IP Value 2007, Homburger, p. 230-232):
- the trademark’s high level of recognition in the Swiss public,
- its strength in advertising,
- its important financial value in different fields, and
- its distinctiveness and uniqueness.
...According to Swiss case law, a percentage of more than 50% of the Swiss population must know the trademark in order for the latter to qualify as being "well known" (Philippe Gilliéron, l.c., N 30; BGer 4C.31/2004, 08.11.2004 c. 3.3; sic! 2005 p. 200, 201: for example public awareness of the trademark RIESEN of 46% across the country was deemed to be insufficient by the Swiss Federal Tribunal). ...
2012-12-05 - Case Details
According to Research In Motion Limited, “a registrant that chooses to register through a privacy service and the registrar that provides such registration must bear some of the consequences of anonymous registration.” In Motion Limited, supra. at p. 5 citing F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG v. PrivacyProtect.org; Domain Admin and Mark Sergijenko,
WIPO Case No. ...Class
(Int’l)
DATE OF REGISTRATION
COUNTRY
ABB (AND DESIGN)
P-360.303
1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 17.
January 27, 1998
Switzerland
ABB
P-360.773
1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 17.
...
2010-12-15 - Case Details
Le seul enregistrement, respectivement la seule titularité d’un nom de domaine inactif, ne constitue pas un usage, et partant une infraction, au sens de la LPM (Joller, in Bettinger, Handbuch des Domainrechts, Köln/München 2008, p. 948, avec références à la jurisprudence). Si l’on considère que des pages parking sont des noms de domaine “inactifs” il y a lieu d’appliquer cette jurisprudence. ...L’enregistrement d’une multitude de noms de domaine incorporant la marque d’un tiers est un indice clair pour cet expert de l’intention d’entraver son concurrent (Joller, op. cit., p. 944; Buri, Die Verwechselbarkeit von Internet Domain Names, Berne 2000, p. 146).
En l’occurrence, l’inscription de 47 noms de domaine incorporant la marque APRIL par le Défendeur constitue un tel indice pour cet expert. ...
2014-09-16 - Case Details
Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent’s default on April 1, 2022.
The Center appointed William P. Knight as the sole panelist in this matter on April 8, 2022. The Panel finds
that it was properly constituted. ...Decision
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel
orders the disputed domain name be transferred to the Complainant.
/William P. Knight/
William P. Knight
Sole Panelist
Date: April 22, 2022
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Universal Services of America, LP d/b/a Allied Universal v. ...
2022-04-27 - Case Details
The disputed domain name consists of the prefix “gb” followed by a typo of Complainant’s WHATSAPP
Trademark, with the addition of an extra letter “t” and the substitution of a letter “k” in place of the second “p”.
Despite these misspellings and typographical variations, the WHATSAPP Trademark is recognizable within
the disputed domain name. ...The disputed domain name reproduces the WHATSAPP
Trademark with the mere addition of the prefix “gb” followed by a typo of Complainant’s WHATSAPP
Trademark, with the addition of an extra letter “t” and the substitution of a letter “k” in place of the second “p”.
Despite these misspellings and typographical variations, the resemblance with the Complainant’s Trademark
is obvious and is not contested by the Respondent. ...
2025-08-12 - Case Details
Notably, the Complainant contends that the disputed domain names are virtually identical, or at least
confusingly similar to its well-known trademark, and corporate name GALERIES LAFAYETTE, in conjunction
with the term “vip”, separated by a hyphen and the letters “s”, “o”, “n”, “p”, “i”, and “k”; that the Respondents
have no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain names; and that the Respondents registered
and are using the disputed domain names in bad faith to direct Internet users to a login page reproducing the
Complainant’s logo, without any authorization; moreover, the disputed domain names were used to create
revenue through fraudulent behavior and illicit practices by impersonating one of the Complainant’s chief
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executives, to contact customers inviting them to join fictitious “VIP groups”; the Complainant considers that
the Respondents’ contact information is false and that the disputed domain names are registered by the
same person.
...Although the addition of other terms and letters, here “vip”, “s”, “o”, “n”, “p”, “i”, and “k””, may bear on
assessment of the second and third elements, the Panel finds the addition of such terms/letters do not
prevent a finding of confusing similarity between the disputed domain names and the mark for the purposes
of the Policy. ...
2024-11-21 - Case Details
CENTRO
DE ARBITRAJE
Y MEDIACIÓN
DECISIÓN DEL EXPERTO
PWxyz, LLC c. E. P.
Caso No. DES2024-0036
1. Las Partes
La Demandante es PWxyz, LLC, Estados Unidos de América (“Estados Unidos”), representada por GUELL
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, S.L.P., España.
El Demandado es E. P., Estados Unidos.
2. El Nombre de Dominio y el Registrador
La Demanda tiene como objeto el nombre de dominio en disputa .
...
2024-11-18 - Case Details
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Dunn and Dunn, P.C. (aka Charles Dunn Law, P.C.) v. W P, The Cloud Corp
Case No. D2018-0219
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Dunn and Dunn, P.C. (aka Charles Dunn Law, P.C.) of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, represented by Christopher R. Lavoie, United States of America.
The Respondent is W P, The Cloud Corp of George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
2. ...
2018-04-16 - Case Details
DLI2015-0001; Alain Alberini/Kevin Guillet, L'incidence du contenu du site Internet dans les litiges en matière de noms de domaine, sic! 2012 p. 305, 313). Par conséquent, il n'y a pas en l'espèce de violation des droits de la Requérante sous l'angle du droit des marques, la condition de l'usage à titre de marque faisant défaut.
...D'autre part, on relèvera qu'en l'état actuel de la jurisprudence suisse, la réservation de la marque d'un tiers comme mot-clé ne constitue pas en soi une violation du droit à la marque ou du droit de la concurrence déloyale (arrêt de l'Obergericht de Thurgovie du 7 septembre 2011, sic! 2012 p. 387 ss – "Ifolor"; Irène Rivara, "Keyword advertising : développements récents au regard du droit des marques", PJA 2012, p. 1546 ss, 1551). ...
2016-05-20 - Case Details
Complainant submits that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to Complainant’s well-known
GRAB trademark, as it incorporates the entirety of the latter, with a single typographical variation by using
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the letter “p” instead of the letter “b” which comprises an obvious and intentional misspelling of Complainant’s
GRAB trademark, and added by the term “longan” which is a geographical location in Viet Nam (e.g., Long
An Province). ...Also, such trademark is almost entirely reproduced within the disputed
domain name, merely in an obvious typo-squatted version (by substituting the letter “b” for the letter “p) and
added by the geographical term “longan”, referring to the “Long An Province” in Viet Nam. Accordingly, the
disputed domain name is confusingly similar to Complainant’s GRAB trademark for the purposes of the
Policy. ...
2025-05-20 - Case Details
El Titular es Franco P Tejeda, Alemania.
2. El Nombre de Dominio y el Registrador
La Solicitud tiene como objeto el nombre de dominio en disputa .
...Decisión del Grupo de Expertos
Caterpillar Inc. c. Franco P Tejeda
Caso No. DMX2025-0036...
2026-02-17 - Case Details