Case Number: 100980
Complainant: Playa Games GmbH
Represented by:
ADR.eu - Case No. 100980
Playa Games GmbH which is the creator and operator of an online game called “Shakes & Fidget” which it says is known as “SFGAME” was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name SFGame.com
The decision was handed down by the one member UDRP panel of Alistair Payne.
The UDRP was decided by the On-line ADR Center of the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC).
The domain holder is CBS Interactive a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, which owns 250 domain names that include the term “game”.
The domain name SFGame.com was registered on 8 August 2007 which is two years before the Complainant company was even founded.
The Complainant does not currently own any registered trade mark for “SFGAME” and therefore was making a common law right argument for its trademark rights which the one member panel said it failed to prove
Here are the highlights:
“”According to the Complainant more than 40 million players have signed up worldwide to play “SFGAME” and that its’ revenues have reached an 8 digit volume of sales per year.
It says that the Respondent does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name as it was inactive and unused until three weeks ago.
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Source: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/07/08/playa-games-maker-of-online-sfgame-played-by-40m-found-guilty-of-reverse-domain-name-hijacking/