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Hershey’s Files UDRP On 16 Year Old ChocolateWorld.com; 17 Year old NewBody.com Also Hit

April 15, 2014 by Michael Berkens

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

 

Filed Under: UDRP

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. johnuk says

    April 16, 2014 at 5:58 am

    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.

  2. Michael Berkens says

    April 16, 2014 at 6:53 pm

    Well the case was just filed maybe Hersey’s will lose

  3. johnuk says

    April 16, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    I will keep my fingers crossed for the Respondent.

  4. Acro says

    June 11, 2014 at 6:48 pm

    Newbody.com UDRP denied: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2014-0611

  5. Michael Berkens says

    June 11, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    I saw

    doesn’t look like a landmark case


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