Westmore · UDRP DecisionEmail-credit-agricole-secure.com
The Panel ordered transfer of email-credit-agricole-secure.com after finding it confusingly similar to the CREDIT AGRICOLE mark, that the Respondent lacked rights or legitimate interests, and that the domain was registered and used in bad faith to take unfair advantage of the Complainant's reputation.
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Drawing an inference from the default, the Panel found that the Respondent had no good reason to register and use a domain incorporating the Complainant's very well-known mark and that its purpose was to take unfair advantage of the Complainant's reputation in bad faith.
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Case number CAC-UDRP-101205 Time of filing 2016-04-12 10:43:02 Domain names email-credit-agricole-secure.com Case administrator Name Lada Válková (Case admin) Complainant Organization CREDIT AGRICOLE S.A. Complainant representative Organization Nameshield (Maxime Benoist) Respondent Name CRÉDIT AGRICOLE INFO Other Legal Proceedings None Identification Of Rights The Complainant is the owner of the following trademarks: (i) International Trade Mark No. 1064647 CREDIT AGRICOLE registered on 4 January 2011; (ii) International Trade Mark No. 525634 CREDIT AGRICOLE logo registered on 13 July 1988; (iii) International Trade Mark No. 441714 CREDIT AGRICOLE logo registered on 25 October 1978; (iv) EU Trade Mark No. 006456974 CREDIT AGRICOLE filed on 13 November 2007; (v) EU Trade Mark No. 005505995 CREDIT AGRICOLE logo filed on 20 November 2006; The disputed domain name was registered on 3 April 2016, i.e. the Complainant's trademarks predate the registration of the disputed domain name. Factual Background FACTS ASSERTED BY THE COMPLAINANT AND NOT CONTESTED BY THE RESPONDENT: The Complainant is a leading French bank providing banking and other financial services under the trade mark CREDIT AGRICOLE which it has registered as an international trade mark and as an EU trade mark. The Respondent is not connected with the Complainant and has not been authorised by the Complainant to register or use the disputed domain name or any other name containing the Complainant's CREDIT AGRICOLE trade mark. The disputed domain name has not been used for any active website. Parties Contentions NO ADMINISTRATIVELY COMPLIANT RESPONSE HAS BEEN FILED. Rights The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(i)of the Policy). No Rights or Legitimate Interests The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Respondent to have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Domain Name (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(ii)of the Policy). Bad Faith The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Domain Name has been registered and is being used in bad faith (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(iii)of the Policy). Procedural Factors The Panel is satisfied that all procedural requirements under UDRP were met and there is no other reason why it would be inappropriate to provide a decision. Principal Reasons for the Decision The domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's registered trademark "CREDIT AGRICOLE", from which it differs only in the addition of generic elements, namely "email", "secure" and ".com" and hyphens separating words. Many members of the public would assume that the domain name refers to an email service authorised by the Complainant. The Respondent has not made any bona fide offering of goods or services or any demonstrable preparations for such an offering. Nor is he making any legitimate non-commercial or fair use of the domain name. Nor is he commonly known by the domain name or any corresponding name; the only use which the Respondent appears to have made of any such name is in the registration of the domain name itself behind a privacy service so that it was not accessible to the public. He is not connected with the Complainant or authorised by it to use the domain name. The Panel is satisfied that there is no other basis on which the Respondent could claim any right or legitimate interest in the domain name. In accordance with paragraph 14 (b) of the Rules, the Panel is entitled to draw appropriate inferences from the Respondent's failure to submit a Response. The Panel infers from the absence of a response that the Respondent had no good reason for registering and using the disputed domain name, which incorporates the Complainant's very well-known mark and is liable to be confused with it, and that the Respondent's purpose is to take unfair advantage of the Complainant's reputation under the mark in bad faith. For all the reasons stated above, the Complaint is Accepted and the disputed domain name(s) is (are) to be EMAIL-CREDIT-AGRICOLE-SECURE.COM: Transferred PANELLISTS Name Jonathan Turner Date of Panel Decision 2016-05-19 Publish the Decision
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