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Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice,) owner of VictoriaBeckham.com, has won a case at WIPO against Cynthia Panford, co-founder of USBeckham.com.
WIPO ruled that Pangford's website was confusingly similar to the Beckham trademark and ordered control to be handed to Victoria Beckham. The ruling also sated that Panford had "no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name" and went on to say that the domain was "registered in bad faith".
The USBeckham.com site sold clothing as did that of the VictoriaBeckham.com site.
Unfortunately Pangford is said to have accused the WIPO lawyers of harassment.
(As reported in 'The Sun' (UK) newspaper, 20/09/2021.)
WIPO ruled that Pangford's website was confusingly similar to the Beckham trademark and ordered control to be handed to Victoria Beckham. The ruling also sated that Panford had "no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name" and went on to say that the domain was "registered in bad faith".
The USBeckham.com site sold clothing as did that of the VictoriaBeckham.com site.
Unfortunately Pangford is said to have accused the WIPO lawyers of harassment.
(As reported in 'The Sun' (UK) newspaper, 20/09/2021.)
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