The Complainant established its case and the Panelist transferred the Domain
Name to the Complainant.
Note to Reader: Decision was
written in French and roughly translated to English for the purposes of this
summary.
Despite frequent travel to Montreal throughout my life, I never heard of
Musee Grevin Montreal Inc., the Complainant.
A quick visit to the web site opened my eyes to the impressive wax
museum in Montreal with over 120 sculptures of famous French
personalities. Despite (1) not owning a registered
trade-mark (2) not being the same company that owns the CAFÉ GREVIN design
trade-mark (presumably owned by its parent/affiliated company in France), and (3)
not owning the grevin.com domain name - the Complaint established rights in the
GREVIN mark prior to the date the Domain Name was registered. The Panel held that the registering and then
forwarding of the Domain Name to a web site with archived information attempting
to discredit the Complainant’s business was clearly done in bad faith. Further, the Registrant was attempting to
sell the Domain Name for $11,298.60 which was much higher than the cost of registration.
You can read the decision here.
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