Case Number: 1969515
Complainant: Electrosoft Services, Inc.
Represented by: Kevin J. Thomas and Jason D. Rosenberg
An information technology and cybersecurity company, operating largely in Maryland and Virginia, and primarily in the Washington, D.C.-metro area, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after trying to use the UDRP process to transfer electrosoft.com from its current registrant. Electrosoft Services, Inc., had claimed it had common-law trademark rights that began accruing in 1997, with a business registration in Maryland, followed by another in Virginia, six years later. The domain was registered in 2000.
A single-member panel of the National Arbitration Forbum rejected the complainant’s argument that it had a common-law trademark, and noted the company filed the UDRP 23 years after the domain was registered by its current owner, a delay the panelist, Jeffrey J. Neuman, wrote became a consideration. Nr. Neuman’s ruling was handed up against Electrosoft Services on December 9, 2021.
Source: https://www.adrforum.com/DomainDecisions/1969515.htm