GENEVA — The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled in favor of content platform Clips4Sale in a case against a website using a similar domain to impersonate the site.
Clips4Sale filed a complaint in February with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center about the domain en-clips4sale.com. According to the WIPO administrative panel’s ruling, a registrant listed only as “sk media” used that domain name “to set up a website impersonating the Complainant and offering services identical to those offered by the Complainant.”
The WIPO panel found that the disputed domain was “identical or confusingly similar” to Clips4Sale’s trademark, that the party using it had “no rights or legitimate interests” in using it, and that the domain name was registered and used in bad faith. As a result, the panel ordered the fraudulent domain to be transferred to Clips4Sale.
Industry attorney Corey D. Silverstein, who represented Clips4Sale in the case, told XBIZ, “Clips4Sale will not hesitate to utilize all legal means available to enforce its intellectual property rights, regardless of the location of the infringer. No person or entity will be permitted to try to unlawfully exploit the hard work of the Clips4Sale team and its dedicated store owners and content creators.”
The registrant of the fraudulent domain, "sk media," has no apparent connection with other persons or organizations using that name.
