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Sanrio Company, Ltd. & Sanrio, Inc. v. DLI

An early character-domain recovery, decided 20 April 2000.

Sanrio Company, Ltd. and Sanrio, Inc.,
Plaintiff,
v.
DLI,
Defendant.
Docket No.WIPO Case No. D2000-0159
CourtWIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Filed2000
StatusDecided

The record

Court
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Jurisdiction
UDRP
Docket No.
WIPO Case No. D2000-0159
Filed
2000
Resolved
2000
Sanrio’s role
Plaintiff
Type
Domain (UDRP)
Claims
UDRP — identical/confusingly similar; bad faith
Counsel — plaintiff/petitioner
not public
Counsel — Sanrio side
not public

What happened

An early character-domain recovery, decided 20 April 2000.

Outcome

Domain <pochacco.com> transferred to Sanrio. Sole panelist Jeffrey M. Samuels found the domain legally identical to POCHACCO, no legitimate use, and bad-faith passive holding.

The legal nuance

One of a pair of same-day Sanrio UDRP wins by the same panelist.

Sources of record

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