blog Panel: Complainant’s Representatives Likely Knew Case Bound to Fail – vol 4.28

[ICA]

Posted on Behalf of Ankur Raheja

Panel: Complainant’s Representatives Likely Knew Case Bound to Fail To the Panel’s credit, the dismissal and finding of RDNH was of course entirely justified as a result of the domain name registration preceding the Complainant’s trademark rights by 16 years. But why did the Respondent have to deal with a case this meritless? Yes, meritless cases are part and parcel...

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[BaileyUK]

Timely post, thanks
I've just quoted this case in regard a recent thread about a NP member exploring ways to obtain a pre-registered .de domain

 

[zotix]

Thank you for posting this & thank you so much for sending me the link @BaileyUK
Well, in this case, I have to pass on the .de TLD and register the brand without it.
I checked WBM etc. - it was parked on registrar's pages for years, and never developed.

Thanks both!

KR
zotix