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Sanrio Company, Ltd. & Sanrio, Inc. v. Stephanie Sims
Hello Kitty “pageant” domains recovered the same year Sanrio sued an actual Hello Kitty pageant in Oklahoma.
Sanrio Company, Ltd. and Sanrio, Inc.,
Plaintiff,
v.
Stephanie Sims / Florida Job Link (Spring Hill, FL),
Defendant.
Docket No.NAF Case No. FA1211001471284
CourtNational Arbitration Forum
Filed2012
StatusDecided
The record
- Court
- National Arbitration Forum
- Jurisdiction
- UDRP
- Docket No.
- NAF Case No. FA1211001471284
- Filed
- 2012
- Resolved
- 2012
- Sanrio’s role
- Plaintiff
- Type
- Domain (UDRP)
- Claims
- UDRP — confusingly similar; bad faith
- Counsel — plaintiff/petitioner
- not public
- Counsel — Sanrio side
- not public
What happened
Hello Kitty “pageant” domains recovered the same year Sanrio sued an actual Hello Kitty pageant in Oklahoma.
Outcome
Both <hellokittypageant.com> and <hellokittypageants.com> transferred (20 Dec 2012, panelist Neil Anthony Brown QC).
The legal nuance
The pageant theme runs through both Sanrio’s domain and court fights that year.
Sources of record