A couple of interesting UDRP filings today
Hershey’s filed a UDRP on the domain name ChocolateWorld.com
The domain name was registered in back in 1997 however it is going to a blank page and according to Screenshots.com the domain may never have resolved to any type of site or page, not even a parked page.
Hershey does have a trademark on the term Chocolate World going back to 2005 as well as HERSHEY’S CHOCOLATE WORLD which was registered in 2011/2012
Another UDRP filed today is against another domain consisting of a seemly generic term, NewBody.com
NewBody.com has an original registration date older than ChocolateWorld.com or 1996
The complainant in the NewBody.com case is Cocolabel AB which filed for a US trademark on the term New Body in 2012 and to which opposition was filed to in 2013.
The domain appears to have sold or been transferred to a new owner in late 2013 or early 2014
NewBody.com currently goes to a parked page
I just did a search of trademarks in pretty much every Country for the term “Chocolate World” and there are around 11 pages of results (around 200 + TM’s both filed, expired and registered and many pre date Hersey’s TM’s. This is were it all gets so very unfair with UDRP’s granting a complainant soooo much more “rights” than they are ever due under TM laws.
Well the case was just filed maybe Hersey’s will lose
I will keep my fingers crossed for the Respondent.
Newbody.com UDRP denied: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2014-0611
I saw
doesn’t look like a landmark case