Since the commencement of domain name dispute resolution it has been commonly
held that the effect of linking a trademark with an ordinary descriptive word
does not detract from the trademark itself. See, for example, Sony Kabushiki
Kaisha v. Inja, Kil, WIPO Case No. D2000-1409
where 19 domain names incorporated the trademark SONY. In that case the panel
held that "neither the addition of an ordinary descriptive word (either as a
prefix or suffix)…detract from the overall impression of the dominant part of
the name in each case, namely the trademark SONY…. A reader of any of the disputed
domain names would be confused into thinking that it was associated with the
complainant". ...
2002-09-13 - Case Details
D2001-0174, (March 28, 2001,) –addition of "400"
and "southern500"-,; Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony
Corporation) v. Kil Inja, WIPO Case No.
D2000-1409, (December 9, 2000), –addition of prefixes or suffixes
to a world-famous mark-; and America Online, Inc. v. ...Diabetes
Home Care, Inc. and DHC Services, WIPO
Case No. D2001-0174, (March 28, 2001),; Sony Kabushiki Kaisha
(also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Kil Inja, WIPO
Case No. D2000-1409, (December 9, 2000),; and America Online,
Inc. v. ...
2003-11-06 - Case Details
(1) 분쟁도메인이름 과 은 “microsoft”와 “sony”로 결합되어 있고 결합순서만 달리하고 있다. 분쟁도메인이름은 신청인의 등록상표인 MICROSOFT를 포함하고 있으므로 신청인의 상표와 유사하다. 분쟁도메인이름에 SONY와 같이 제3자의 상표가 신청인의 상표와 결합되어 있다는 사실만으로 유사성이 부인되지 않는다. ...상표와 도메인이름의 동일·유사성
분쟁도메인이름 과 은 gTLD 표지인 “.com” 을 제외하면 “microsoft”와 “sony”로 구성되어 있으며 동일성 및 유사성 여부의 판단에 “.com” 부분은 무시할 수 있는 것이다. 또한 분쟁도메인이름이 신청인의 상표와 제3자의 상표로 결합되어 있다는 사실만으로 유사성이 배제되지 않는 다는 것이 종전 WIPO사건에서 패널의 다수의 견해이다. ...
2011-11-09 - Case Details
The Panel may also make negative inferences arising from the Respondent's failure to respond, as well as its registration of multiple domain names reflecting the same famous trademark. See, e.g., Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409.
The Panel finds that the Complainant has established that the Domain Names were registered and are being used in bad faith, as outlined in paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy.
7. ...
2015-01-27 - Case Details
Furthermore, the Panel may also make negative inferences arising from Respondent's failure to respond. See, e.g., Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409.
The Panel finds that Complainant has established that the disputed domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith, as outlined in paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy.
7. ...
2016-05-17 - Case Details
Furthermore, the Panel may make negative inferences arising from the Respondent’s failure to respond. See, e.g., Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000‑1409.
The Panel finds that the Complainant has established that the disputed domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith, as outlined in paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy.
7. ...
2018-01-12 - Case Details
Redmond Web and
Branden F. Moulton, WIPO Case No. D2000-0056,
and Sony Kabushiki Kaisha also trading as Sony Corporation and Sony Computer
Entertainment Inc. v. Salvatore Vetro, WIPO
Case No. ...D2000-0270, while for same day registrations representing a pattern,
see Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
supra; Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux v. ...
2004-06-28 - Case Details
Cup International Limited, WIPO
Case No. D2000-0338; Sony Kabushiki Kaisha also trading as Sony Corporation
and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. v. Salvatore Vetro, WIPO
Case No D2001-0575.
...
2006-09-13 - Case Details
Moreover, this Panel finds, as several WIPO
panels adjudicating previous decisions involving well-known marks have already
found, that the addition of a descriptive word (here, “roadhouse”)
as a suffix to the mark does not obviate the confusing similarity between the
Disputed Domain Name and Complainant’s PEPSI and PEPSI-COLA marks. See,
e.g., Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Kil Inja,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409 (December 9,
2000) (addition of ordinary descriptive word as prefix or suffix to a world-famous
mark such as SONY does not detract from overall impression of the dominant part
of the name, the famous mark); America Online, Inc. v. ...
2006-07-06 - Case Details
Respondent advises that it has undertaken efforts to disable the placeholder provider's listings on the website and is endeavouring to have all links pointing to the “www.cellhut.com” Sony Ericsson page, which is its site where it sells genuine Ericsson products. Respondent further advises that this site will remain in this fashion until it can be developed as a stand alone site in the manner in which it seeks to utilize it in connection with Ericsson goods.
6. ...Respondent further asserts that it has undertaken efforts to disable the placeholder provider's listings on the website and to have all links pointing to the “www.cellhut.com” Sony Ericsson page.
Regardless of what Respondent intends to do in the future to ameliorate the position the Panel is obliged to look at the evidence before it. ...
2010-03-01 - Case Details
D2001-0026 (finding confusing similarity where the domain name contains the identical mark of the complainant combined with a generic word or term); see also, Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409 (finding that “[n]either the addition of an ordinary descriptive word […] nor the suffix “.com” detract from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name in each case, namely the trademark SONY” and thus Policy, paragraph 4(a)(i) is satisfied).
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2013-02-13 - Case Details
D2001-0026 (finding confusing similarity where the domain name contains the identical mark of the complainant combined with a generic word or term); see also, Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409 (finding that “[n]either the addition of an ordinary descriptive word […] nor the suffix “.com” detract from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name in each case, namely the trademark SONY” and thus Policy, paragraph 4(a)(i) is satisfied).
...
2011-07-20 - Case Details
D2001-0026 (finding confusing similarity where the domain name contains the identical mark of the complainant combined with a generic word or term); see also, Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409 (finding that “[n]either the addition of an ordinary descriptive word […] nor the suffix “.com” detract from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name in each case, namely the trademark SONY” and thus Policy, paragraph 4(a)(i) is satisfied).
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2013-05-27 - Case Details
D2011-1042 (finding the addition of the geographic term “Beverly Hills” to Complainant’s MONTAGE trademark created a domain name that was confusingly similar to Complainant’s trademark); see also, Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409 (finding that “[n]either the addition of an ordinary descriptive word […] nor the suffix “.com” detract from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name in each case, namely the trademark SONY” and thus Policy, paragraph 4(a)(i) is satisfied).
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2013-08-30 - Case Details
D2001-0026 (finding confusing similarity where the domain name contains the identical mark of the complainant combined with a generic word or term); see also, Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409 (finding that “[n]either the addition of an ordinary descriptive word […] nor the suffix “.com” detract from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name in each case, namely the trademark SONY” and thus Policy, paragraph 4(a)(i) is satisfied); Cellular One Group v. ...
2014-05-26 - Case Details
Wangming,
WIPO Case No.. D2006-1107. As stated by the panel in Sony Kabushuki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409, “neither the addition of an ordinary descriptive word nor the suffix “.com” detracts from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name, namely the trademark SONY”. ...
2014-02-04 - Case Details
The addition “au” is simply the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 designation for Australia, while the use of the hyphen between the words of the Disputed Domain Name is merely an artifact of punctuation.
As stated by the panel in Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409, “neither the addition of an ordinary descriptive word nor the suffix “.com” detracts from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name, namely the trademark SONY”. ...
2016-02-19 - Case Details
As stated in WIPO 3.0, para. 1.11.1—“[t]he applicable Top Level Domain (“TLD”) in a domain name (e.g., “.com”, “.club”, “.nyc”) is viewed as a standard registration requirement and as such is disregarded under the first element confusing similarity test.”
The panel in Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409, concluded that “neither the addition of an ordinary descriptive word nor the suffix “.com” detracts from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name, namely the trademark SONY”. ...
2017-06-26 - Case Details
D2001-0026 (finding confusing similarity where the domain name contains the identical mark of the complainant combined with a generic word or term); see also, Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409 (finding that “[n]either the addition of an ordinary descriptive word […] nor the suffix ‘.com’ detract from the overall impression of the dominant part of the name in each case, namely the trademark SONY” and thus Policy, paragraph 4(a)(i) is satisfied).
...
2017-08-30 - Case Details
The general rules as set forth above are easily applicable to domain names
combining a trademark and a generic denomination correlating to services or
products of the trademark holder (such as Microsoft Corporation v Momm Amed
Ia, WIPO Case No. D2001-1454, ,
or Sony Kabushiki Kaisha (also trading as Sony Corporation) v. Inja, Kil,
WIPO Case No. D2000-1409 relating
to and several other domain names incorporating the
SONY trademark and a generic description). ...
2003-09-19 - Case Details