Le 23 avril 2018, les avocats du Requérant ont envoyé une lettre au Défendeur, soulignant encore une fois les droits du Requérant et ajoutant que le Défendeur a constaté à son site “www.payintouch.com” que le Défendeur est “la seule passerelle autonome d’inscription en ligne au système d’acceptation des paiements du Groupement des Cartes Bancaires [le Requérant] certifiées ‘CB Visa et MasterCard’”.
Le Défendeur a répondu à cette dernière lettre par courrier électronique, dans lequel il a proposé un rachat du nom de domaine litigieux. ...Le Défendeur a utilisé la marque CB sur son site “www.payintouch.com”, où le Défendeur se présente comme “la seule passerelle autonome d’inscription en ligne au système d’acceptation des paiements du Groupement des Cartes Bancaires [le Requérant] certifiées ‘CB Visa et MasterCard’”. Il est manifeste que le Défendeur tente de créer l’impression fausse chez les consommateurs d’un lien entre le Défendeur et le Requérant.
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2018-08-22 - Case Details
At the date of the Complaint the disputed domain name resolved to the homepage of the Complainant’s major competitor, “Visa”.
The disputed domain name was registered on October 17, 2008.
5. Parties’ Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainant’s submissions may be summarized as follows:
(i) As a result of its extensive and longstanding use and promotion of its MASTERCARD trademark that now has become famous and symbolizes an enormous amount of goodwill which is associated exclusively with the goods and services offered by the Complainant.
...Since registering the disputed domain name the Respondent has directed it to the website of the Complainant’s major competitor, “Visa”. There is no evidence as to why it would do so unless it were out of malice or for commercial gain, as by a pay-per-click royalty. ...
2011-11-25 - Case Details
The disputed domain name was registered on August 8, 2022, and initially redirected to a website purporting
to offer users “$500 Visa® Prepaid Cards For Gas”, but at the time of filing of the Complaint navigation to the
website accessed through the disputed domain name generated an error message and no longer provided
any content, and as of the date of this decision, it appears that the disputed domain name still resolves to an
inactive website.
5. ...Here, the annex to the Complaint shows that Complainant’s initial attempts to access a website using the
disputed domain name redirected to a website purporting to offer users “$500 Visa® Prepaid Cards For
Gas”. Combining these facts with the disputed domain name’s confusing similarity to the AAA Mark, it is
reasonable for the Panel to conclude that Respondent has prepared the disputed domain name to engage in
a fraudulent gas card distribution scheme, or well aware of Complainant’s famous AAA Mark, to register and
use of the disputed domain name to create a false association with Complainant to redirect users to a
website offering prepaid Visa gas cards that, if legitimate, compete with AAA’s fuel-related services and
benefits and would be disruptive of Complainant’s business. ...
2023-02-17 - Case Details
In response, Respondent sent an email stating that the company only accepted MasterCard, American Express and Discover credit cards and did not accept Visa as a form of payment, despite the fact that payment by Visa credit card was an option at the point of purchase.
Complainant’s representative then placed his order again, this time using a MasterCard credit card instead of the Visa card. This order was also subsequently cancelled, with Respondent sending an email stating that the company could deliver only within the State of California at that time.
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2012-04-16 - Case Details
The Respondent has therefore declined all opportunity to prove why it had due cause to use the name "Aspreys" in connection with the Domain Name.
- The Complainant refers to the case of Visa Trade Mark [2000] RPC 484 [also available at http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/legal/decisions/appeal1999/o34099.pdf], in which an application for the registration of the trade mark "Visa" in respect of condoms was successfully opposed by the holders of the Visa trade mark in respect of financial services. In the same way that the registration of "Visa" in respect of condoms was held to be detrimental to the existing "Visa" mark, so the registration of "Aspreys" in respect of "casinos" (or the refusal to transfer the Domain Name to the Complainant) would allow the Respondent to take unfair advantage of the Complainant’s mark and the goodwill in that mark...
2003-03-12 - Case Details
Attached as Exhibit 26 of the Complaint is an alleged screen shot of Chung’s web site displaying a VISA advertisement beneath the disputed domain names (1)-(3) inclusive. Attached as Exhibit 27 of the Complaint is an alleged screen shot of the full VISA advertisement obtained by clicking on the VISA button advertisement on Chung’s web site. The Complainant states that contrary to the implication left by Chung’s web sites, MASTERCARD, not VISA, is the official corporate sponsor (for financial services) of WORLD CUP 2002.
This Administrative Panel notes that the VISA advertisement in Exhibit 26 appears to be superimposed over, rather embedded within, the page of Chung’s web site. ...
2000-04-04 - Case Details
One link stated it provided details of how to register with Ashley Madison without using a credit card and appeared to be an advertisement for Visa Debit cards. The Complainant stated that the website contained links to third party websites but did not exhibit any of these links to the Complaint.
...The use of the page under the disputed domain name to claim to be an official homepage has clearly been done to attract visitors to the site for commercial gain. The advertisement of the Visa Debit cards at the least must have been creating some revenue for the Respondent.
The third element of the UDRP is made out.
7. ...
2015-01-21 - Case Details
Domännamnet är identiskt med eller liknar en rättighet (till exempel varumärke eller firma) vilken har rättsgrund i Sverige och till vilken den som begärt tvistlösningen kan visa rätt
Sökanden har anfört och styrkt att Sökanden sedan den 10 mars 2017 är registrerad innehavare av firman SVEA BANK AB för bedrivande av bankrörelse enligt legaldefinitionen i lag (2004:297) om bank- och finansieringsrörelse. ...I bedömningen av huruvida ond tro föreligger är det sökanden som bär bevisbördan och som således måste visa att innehavaren kände till kännetecknet och att det finns en medvetenhet kring användningen eller registreringen av domännamnet, och den effekt det har på sökandens verksamhet. ...
2017-12-11 - Case Details
The website also provided shopping cart facilities in close proximity to logos of PayPal, Visa, Verisign and Mastercard.
5. Parties’ Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainants content that:
(1) The Disputed Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to the trademark EMU in which the Complainants have rights. ...The Panel is of the view that a reasonable person who visited the Respondent’s website was likely to be misled in relation to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of the website and the products purportedly made available for online sale on the website. The shopping cart facilities and use of the Visa, Mastercard and Paypal logos could only communicate that the website was able to undertake e-payment transactions. ...
2010-10-26 - Case Details
Domännamnet är identiskt med eller liknar
a) ett varukännetecken;
b) ett näringskännetecken;
c) ett ef ternamn;
d) ett konstnärsnamn (om namnet inte syf tar på någon sedan länge avliden);
e) en titel på annans skyddade litterära eller konstnärliga verk;
f ) ett namn som skyddas genom förordning (2019:167) om vissa of f iciella beteckningar; eller
g) ett namn på statlig myndighet som tas upp i det register Statistiska centralbyrån ska föra enligt SFS
2007:755 (förordning om det allmänna myndighetsregistret), eller dess vedertagna förkortning, vilket har
rättsgrund i Sverige och till vilket den som begärt tvistlösningen kan visa rätt, och
2. Domännamnet har registrerats eller använts i ond tro, och
3. Innehavaren inte har någon rätt eller berättigat intresse till Domännamnet
A. Domännamnet är identiskt med eller liknar en rättighet vilken har rättsgrund i Sverige och till
vilken den som begärt tvistlösningen kan visa rätt
Enligt domännamnspraxis är det brukligt vid likhetsbedömning att bortse fråm tillägg i form av toppdomänen
”.se”. ...
2023-12-13 - Case Details
Fragomen LLP is the owner of the United States Trademark Registration No. 2906599 for the word mark
FRAGOMEN registered since November 30, 2004, for visa and immigration services for corporations and
individuals.
FGIS is the owner of the United States Trademark Registration No. 5525237 for the word mark FRAGOMEN
CONNECT registered since July 24, 2018, for visa and immigration services for companies and individuals.
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2024-04-30 - Case Details
The disputed domain name redirects to a website which shows different entries dedicated to goods and services offered by ADP, including the “Aline Card”, a reloadable Visa card.
5. Parties’ Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainant states the following:
The disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant’s trademark ADP.
...The Complianant explains that the “Aline Card By ADP” is a reloadable prepaid Visa card that provides employers and employees a convenient, low-cost alternative to paychecks. Through the domain name, a consumer can activate its “ALINE Card By ADP”, log in to its account, locate ATM machines where its card may be used, and obtain other information about the Aline card by ADP.
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2017-05-17 - Case Details
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Visa Europe Limited v. DomainByProxy.com / Dahai Huang
Case No. D2011-0302
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Visa Europe Limited of Paris, France, represented by Inlex IP Expertise, France.
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2011-04-06 - Case Details
The Complainant has submitted a non-dated printout showing that the disputed domain name was connected to a website displaying links to competing services, including services of competitors such as Visa and American Express.
As of the date of the Decision, the Panel observes that the disputed domain name is leading to a web page displaying various links on the topic of credit card related services, some of which mentioning competitors of the Complainant such as Visa and American Express.
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2014-02-12 - Case Details
Factual Background
The Complainant incorporated in 2010 is a United Kingdom company that is part of a large company group
which has been providing administrative services in relation to visa applications for over 25 years.
The Complainant is the owner of numerous trade marks containing the VFS mark including:
Trade mark number T0400920A in Singapore for VFS (logo mark) for administrative services since April 25,
2005; and
Trade mark number 1555893 in India for VFS GLOBAL (logo mark) for administrative services since May 7,
2007.
...Factual Background
The Complainant incorporated in 2010 is a United Kingdom company that is part of a large company group which has been providing administrative services in relation to visa applications for over 25 years.
The Complainant is the owner of numerous trade marks containing the VFS mark including:
Trade mark number T0400920A in Singapore for VFS (logo mark) for administrative services since April 25, 2005; and
Trade mark number 1555893 in India for VFS GLOBAL (logo mark) for administrative services since May 7, 2007.
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2025-12-23 - Case Details
In an email sent from this account on August 10, 2022, the sender:
(a) confirmed that the Complainant would provide the addressee with assistance in relation to the
recipient’s application for a protection visa;
(b) attached various documents for the recipient to complete including a “Form 956” which purported to
appoint one of the Complainant’s legal staff as the recipient’s lawyer and a medical authority form on
the Complainant’s letterhead authorising sender to “speak to doctors or other medical professionals
about [the recipient] ... to assist with [the recipient’s] visa application”;
(c) requested a copy of the recipient’s passport;
(d) contained details of an appointment for the recipient to attend; and
(e) replicated the signature block used by the Complainant’s employees including the Complainant’s
official address and electronic co-ordinates, but under the Respondent’s name.
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2023-08-18 - Case Details
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Amundi Asset Management v. David Joel Claude Zachara, I Visa Services Co ltd
Case No. D2020-1251
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Amundi Asset Management, France, represented by Nameshield, France.
The Respondent is David Joel Claude Zachara, I Visa Services Co ltd, Mauritius.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name (“Domain Name”) is registered with Instra Corporation Pty Ltd. ...
2020-07-09 - Case Details
Diskussion och Slutsatser
Enligt paragraf 7.2 i Registreringsvillkoren ska ett domännamn överföras till den som begärt tvistlösningsförfarandet om:
1. domännamnet är identiskt med eller liknar en rättighet (till exempel varumärke eller firma) vilken har rättsgrund i Sverige och till vilken den som begärt tvistlösningen kan visa rätt,
2. domännamnet har registrerats eller använts i ond tro, och
3. innehavaren inte har någon rätt eller berättigat intresse till domännamnet.
...Domännamnet är identiskt med eller liknar en rättighet (till exempel varumärke eller firma) vilken har rättsgrund i Sverige och till vilken den som begärt tvistlösningen kan visa rätt
Det aktuella domännamnet innefattar ordet “rusta” som också är den delen av domännamnet som har mest särprägel. ...
2018-06-21 - Case Details
On August 8, 2012, one of the Complainant’s representatives placed an order for dresses through the Website using a Visa card.
On August 9, 2012, the Complainant informed both the Registrant and Visa about the fraudulent activities carried out on the Website. ...
2012-11-13 - Case Details
- The Respondent registered not only four domain names that are confusingly similar to the Complainant's marks, but has a pattern of registering domain names that infringe upon established trademarks such as VISA and SIX SIGMA. That pattern confirms the bad faith registration and use of the disputed domain names in this case...The Complainant has furnished the panel with compelling evidence (Annex 46 of the Complaint) that the Respondent has registered at least twenty-six other such names involving established marks such as VISA and SIX SIGMA. This reprehensible pattern is sufficient, in and of itself, for the Panel to conclude that the Respondent has registered and is using the disputed domain names in bad faith. ...
2010-01-07 - Case Details