OUT-LAW News, 23/08/2005
The Early Learning Centre has lost an attempt to recover earlylearningcentre.com from a Vietnamese man who has not used it and did not respond to the arbitration complaint. The trade mark was deemed too weak to prove bad faith.
The Early Learning Centre is a well-known toy retailer in the UK with registered trade marks in the words “Early Learning Centre” and shops in 16 countries outside the UK.
It filed its complaint against Hanoi resident Kiansu Thoi in June, only eight and a half months after Kiansu had registered the domain. Kiansu had made no use of the name and did not respond to the complaint, but panellist Warwick Smith of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) still found in his favour.
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23-08-2005, 08:55:51 PM
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