State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company,a mutual insurance firm, has recently won another domain name case.
The mutual insurance firm submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,requesting syncstatefarms.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 received click-through fees from these hyperlinks. Internet users interested in Complainant’s insurance and financial services may have been confused as to Complainant’s affiliation with and sponsorship of the disputed domain name. Respondent attempted to profit from that confusion."
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 be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.
You can read the decision here .
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