The upcoming Navi Mumbai Airport at Mumbai India, which is expected to be operational in 2019 has become active in cyber space and filed the following Domain Disputes under .IN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (INDRP): navimumbaiairport.in (Arbitrator: Mr. Dipak G Parmar) nmia.in … [Read more...]

Following Domain Name Disputes have been filed under INDRP(.In Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) in June 2018:  uni-assist.in filed on 04.06.2018 (Arbitrator: Ms. Lucy Rana) raytheon.org.in filed on 04.06.2018 (Arbitrator: Dr. Ashwinie Kumar Bansal) accentures.in filed on 04.06.2018 … [Read more...]

RAFFLES International Limited claimed to be one of the largest luxury management companies in the world, with over 104 hotels worldwide (at locations like Saudi Arabia, Singapore, China, Dubai, Philippines, Paris, etc.) in operation under the RAFFLES, Fairmont and Swissotel trademarks. It had first … [Read more...]

INDRP basically is a summary procedure to get hold of the IN domain names by the brand/trademark holders and requires a Trademark holder to prove all the three conditions: (i) the Registrant's domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a name, trademark or service mark in which the … [Read more...]

AXA is an Insurance Giant based at France, having online presence at axa.com who recently lost UDRP over AXA.org but was successful under INDRP over domain names axai.in and also axa-im.co.in. Similar decisions re-establish the fact that it is better to keep away from strong trademark based domain … [Read more...]

In an interesting decision, MasterCard International has been denied the transfer of Domain Name MasterPay.in, as the domain name has been legitimately used and it has been held that  INDRP proceedings are for clear cases of cyber squatting, not for resolving trademark infringement and/or trademark … [Read more...]