In a recent decision under the Uniform Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Policy (the UDRP or the Policy) before the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a Panel denied the
transfer of the domain name wekit.com because the
Complainant failed to prove that the Respondent had registered the
domain name in bad faith, even though the Respondent was
advertising it for sale and the Complainant had a matching
trademark.
Background
The Complainant was a marketing agency founded in 2006 in Turin.
It held an Italian trademark registration for the figurative
mark WEKIT, applied for in October 2015 and registered in October
2018. There was nothing to indicate that the Complainant had
used the trademark prior to 2015.
