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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