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The international governing body of football,FIFA,has won a cybersquatting case at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) against a US-based person,who had registered the term Fifa World Cup in an Internet domain.
The ruling came after the Zurich-based Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) filed a complaint before the UN agency WIPO on September 17 this year.
Chris Carter was using the domain fifaworldcup2010.com ,about which the FIFA contended that the name is confusingly similar to its registered trade marks and the website has been registered in bad faith.
WIPO asked Carter to transfer the disputed Internet site to FIFA.
The disputed domain name was registered on February 13,2000,according to the judgement copy of the case.
The WIPOs Arbitration and Mediation Centre found that the domain name has been both registered and used with a view to taking unfair advantage of the reputation of the terms embodied in the complainants (FIFA) trade marks.
WIPO is a specialised agency of the United Nations for developing a balanced and accessible international system in the field of intellectual property rights.
FIFA,the organiser of football world cup,owns numerous trade marks around the world that either comprise terms-Fifa or World Cup.
