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Complainant: Consolidated Artists B.V. of Rotterdam Netherlands
Represented by:
Consolidated Artists B.V. of Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk
Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a company has been found guilty of RDNH on a .co.uk or .uk domain
It should be noted that this is not a UDRP decision.
Nominet the operator of the .uk ccTLD extension has a procedure which is similar to a UDRP but has its own get of rules called a DRS which is published on Nominet’s website at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/drs_expert_overview.pdf.
And I said its only the 5th time that a case has resulted in RDNH.
Mr Garth Piesse of New Zealand is the domain holder and was represented by Adam Taylor of Adlex.co.uk.
The one member “Expert” was Tim Brown
Here are the highlights:
The Complainant is a multinational business which designs, manufactures and markets women’s and men’s clothing and accessories. The Complainant has over 13,000 employees and operates 2,731 stores in 205 countries worldwide. Its first store was established in 2000.
mango.co.uk was registered on 12 August 2013 and mango.uk was registered on 05 July 2014.
The Complainant says that it is the registrant of a number of registered trade marks and has exhibited copies of the undernoted marks from the relevant databases:
MANGO. Registration number: 003360815. Classes: 3,9,14,16,18,25,35. Jurisdiction: European Union. Filing date: 18/09/2003.
MANGO. Registration number: 009850785. Classes: 3,9,14,18,25,35. Jurisdiction: European Union. Filing date: 29/03/2011.
MANGO. Registration number: 005880935. Classes: 41,43,44. Jurisdiction: European Union. Filing date: 20/04/2007.
MANGO. Registration number: 00002594683. Class: 43. Jurisdiction: United Kingdom. Filing date: 20/04/2007
The Complainant has also exhibited a list of 260 related domain names which it owns that are made up of, or include, the term MANGO.
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Source: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/05/12/co-with-13k-employees-2700-stores-found-guilty-of-reverse-domain-name-hijacking-on-mango-uk/