Amazon.com Wins Domain In WIPO Arbitration Case
A global arbitration panel has ruled in favor of Amazon.com after the e-tailer launched proceedings against a U.S.-based rival that registered the domain name www.amazonoutletstores.com.
Amazon.com filed the complaint April 23 against Applied Business Solutions of Denver, whose online business also was found to incorporate visual features similar to Amazon's.
In its decision, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center explained, "Rather than develop goodwill in independently created trademarks, [amazonoutletstores.com] simply misappropriated Amazon.com's hard-won reputation for quality and its popularity as an Internet destination."
WIPO declared that the outlet stores' site was operating in bad faith and demanded it transfer the "confusingly similar" domain name to Amazon.com. Earlier this year, Amazon.com won a similar case against a rival that registered the domain name www.amazong.com (Bulletin, Feb. 5).
Amazon.com filed the complaint April 23 against Applied Business Solutions of Denver, whose online business also was found to incorporate visual features similar to Amazon's.
In its decision, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center explained, "Rather than develop goodwill in independently created trademarks, [amazonoutletstores.com] simply misappropriated Amazon.com's hard-won reputation for quality and its popularity as an Internet destination."
WIPO declared that the outlet stores' site was operating in bad faith and demanded it transfer the "confusingly similar" domain name to Amazon.com. Earlier this year, Amazon.com won a similar case against a rival that registered the domain name www.amazong.com (Bulletin, Feb. 5).
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