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Apple gets hands on two other Apple-related domains

Apple filed a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center against Algernon Salois of Nice reclaiming two different domain names: Apple-downloads.com and Apple-oem.com .

The result gave Apple the rights to all of them .

The company submitted a complaint to the WIPO Arbitration Center,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain names.

Apple owns many trademark registrations for the "Apple mark",registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.Therefore,they contended that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to tis trademark.

Moreover,they contended that the respondent registered and used the disputed domain names in bad faith :

"Respondent has registered and used the disputed domain names in a deliberate attempt to attract Internet users to its website for commercial gain by seeking to profit from the confusion created by the use of the Complainant’s marks in the disputed domain names."

The Panel ordered the two domain names to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.

You can read the decision here .

 

 

 

 
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