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World Intellectual Property Rights Organisation (WIPO) has rejected the claim of UK-based Yell Ltd that an Indian firm offering online directory and marketing services had registered the domain name ukonlineyellowpages.com in ‘‘bad faith’’.
Yell Ltd, distributor of telephone directories and related services, had contended that it had exclusive rights to the trade mark ‘‘yellow pages’’ in UK and the Indian firm Weborcas Software Systems infringed the rights by registering and using the domain name with the trade mark. However, declining the request to transfer the domain name, Michael Treis, sole panelist in the dispute, held that there was no sufficient evidence to establish that Weborcas Software registered and used the domain name in bad faith. ‘‘The panel does not find that there is sufficient evidence that the respondent did register and use the domain name in bad faith,’’ the WIPO order said. While denying Yell’s complaint, the WIPO said it did not find that the offer made by Weborcas to purchase the domain name for $8,000 was evidence of bad faith.
