State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company,a mutual insurance firm, has recently won another domain name case.
Complainant submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,requesting the statefarmlive.com domain name 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 respondent registered a domain name confusingly similar to its trademark .
Moreover,they said the disputed domain name was registered and used in bad faith.
"Respondent’s confusingly similar <statefarmlive.com> domain name creates a likelihood of confusion as to Complainant’s affiliation with the disputed domain name."
"Respondent is commercially gaining from this likelihood of confusion through its presumed receipt of click-through fees, which constitutes bad faith registration and use."
Because the respondent failed to submit a response in this proceeding and because the complainant managed to demonstrate all the elements needed,the Panel ordered the disputed domain name to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .
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