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Tata Group wins cybersquatting case
Economic Times — February 24, 2001

Bangalore: Tata Sons, the holding company of India's biggest industrial conglomerate, the Tata Group, has won a case to evict a cybersquatter from 10 contested internet domain names.

Tata Sons had filed a complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organisation against an Indian agency for registering 10 domain names which included ratantata.com, tatapowerco.com, tatatimken.com and jrdtata.com.

The Tata Group received the decision in its favour from WIPO earlier this month after a complaint was filed in December, a Tata spokeswoman said.

The Geneva-based WIPO, a United Nations agency, protects trademarks and patents.

WIPO said the domain names held by the Indian agency were identical or confusingly similar to the trademark which belongs to Tata Sons.

It said the registration of a host of such domain names by the Indian agency indicated a pattern of cybersquatting.

Tata Sons had earlier obtained similar judgments in its favour for the domain name tata.org and a pornographic site Bodacious-tatas.com.

Ratan Tata is the chairman of Tata Group, which has a combined turnover of about $8 billion with business interests in automobiles, electricity, information technology, chemicals, commodities, hotels and steel.

The group has 80 diversified companies.

Local media reports have said the Tata Group is contesting more than 50 websites which include Tata in their name.

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