In a decision last week, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) upheld a bulk complaint by joint complainants Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation and Six Continents Hotels - both subsidiaries of the InterContinental Hotels Group - against a German individual who held 1,519 domain names which were found to contain terms which were the same, or very similar to, trade marks owned by the hotels, and which falsely appeared to be associated with the hotels.
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang