State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company,a mutual insurance firm, has recently won another domain name case in arbitration . The mutual insurance firm submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,requesting statefarmanswers.com and statefarmquestions.com domain names to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
The complainant owns a service mark registration for the "State Farm" mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office .Therefore they contended in the complaint that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to its trademark.
Moreover,they said the disputed domain names were registered and used in bad faith.
However,the respondent had offered to transfer the disputed domain names to the complainant,but the complainant did nothing to indicate whether it wished to abandon the complaint or not.
All in all,the Panel ordered the disputed domain names be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .



