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CPW ordered to hand over domain name to easyGroup
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| Media release
14th July 2005
easyMobile.com wins case against Carphone Warehouse to stop domain squatting
CPW to transfer domain name to easyGroup.com
When easyMobile.com launched its new mobile service on March 10 2005, CPW
(Carphone Warehouse) took several actions intended to minimise the effects
increased competition will have on its business. Not only did it instruct
its subsidiary Fresh to slash prices to match the opening offer of
easyMobile.com, CPW also opened a website with the domain name
easiermobile.com with the obvious intent to confuse consumers that were
intending to sign up with easyMobile.com. Now, WIPO (World Intellectual
Property Organisation) Arbitration and Mediation Centre has ordered CPW to
transfer the domain name to easyGroup, owners of easyMobile.com. WIPO has
based its ruling on the fact that CPW has registered and used the domain in
bad faith and that CPW did not have a legitimate interest in the domain
name.
“We are very happy WIPO has ordered CPW to hand over the domain and that
there will be one less thing to confuse British mobile users” says Frank
Rasmussen, CEO of easyMobile.com, and continues “Even though its laughable
the way CPW is going to extremes to defend their market share, it points to
the more serious issue that British mobile users in both obvious and less
obvious ways suffer from the many convoluted practices of many players in
the market”.
“easyMobile.com has set out to offer British consumers a mobile service that
is the best combination of quality, service and price. With us mobile users
experience a transparency and convenience they have never had before“, adds
Frank Rasmussen, and concludes, “We are very proud with the many mails we
receive from our satisfied customers praising us and the fantastic customer
service they experience”.
About WIPO:
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international
organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the
human spirit. WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center provides a quick and
inexpensive way of settling commercial disputes involving intellectual
property rights, including the use of domain names and ’Cybersquatting.’
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| Stephen (Sausagefans.com) 2005-07-29, 5:48 am |
| In article <zWiGe.51259$Pf3.29670@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
guy@UNSPAMhiscompute
r.co.uk says...
> Media release
Posted first here about two weeks ago!
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| Stephen (Sausagefans.com) 2005-07-30, 5:48 pm |
| In article < 8cnje111bonhuh0p5vmi
cref8jkd766jgf@4ax.com>,
sales@unimobiles.com says...
> This is old news
>
> Interestingly, the domain has still not been transferred
Dude you should now know how to post, you failed miserably to include
any of the previous post.
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