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Online pet medicine company loses dispute over domain names

PetMed Express ,an online ,telephone and mail order provider of pet medications and other health and nutritional supplements for dogs,cats and horses lost dispute over domain names including term "Pet Med".

The online medicine store PetMed Express operates 1800PetMeds.com.They lost the domain dispute at WIPO for many domain names,such as petmedindex.com, petmedoutlet.com ,petmedoutlet.info and two others.
Respondent Joseph Brinton ,represented by Traverse Legal,registered the domain name in 2006 and set up a web site that included affiliate links to companies selling pet medicine online.He stated that "Pet Meds" is a generic term and it's absurd to request for exclusive rights.They even found something at 1800PetMeds.com.They used the term "pet meds" in a non-trademark manner:"In point of fact, the Respondent is correct that evidence of such descriptive use can be found even on the Complainant’s own website (“at 1800PetMeds.com, we don’t just sell pet meds”; “1800PetMeds offers the highest quality pet meds at the best prices)"

 

 

 
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