The Complainant established its case and the panelist
therefore directed the transfer of legofurniture.ca to the Complainant.
The registrant (Jason Abbott) did not respond to the
Complaint. LEGO Juris A/S (“LEGO”) in an extremely well-known maker of toy
building block sets. The LEGO trade-mark
was registered in Canada in 1957. The
Registrant’s Domain Name is currently being used as a “pay-per-click” site. The
Panelist found the addition of the generic word “furniture” to the Domain Name
did not alleviate confusion due to the “world famous” LEGO trade-mark. Given
the clear (or at least constructive) notice of the existence of the LEGO mark
prior to registering the Domain Name, the panelist found that the logical
inference is that the domain name was registered to capitalize on LEGO’s
goodwill.
Read the decision here.
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