Case Number: D2024-4345
Complainant: Instakart Services Private Limited
Represented by: Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
A single-member panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization has found the India-based delivery company, Instakart Services Private Limited, guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking for using the UDRP process to force a transfer of the domain ekart.com. Instakart is not related to the U.S.-based Instacart.
While the Indian company does have a trademark for the mark, “E-KART”, the India trademark registration dates form 2012. The current domain owner originally purchased ekart.com in 1999.
The panelist for this arbitration, Steven A. Maier, handed up his RDNH ruling against Instakart on November 7, 2024.
Source: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/pdf/2024/d2024-4345.pdf