Complainant
is an affiliate of Tyco International Plc, which provides fire, security and surveillance services. The Complainant obtained two trade-mark registrations in Canada for
the word “SENSORMATIC”, the earliest having been registered March 5, 1974.
The
Domain Name was registered on August 9, 2013, and resolves to a website www.jeanmachine.com where the Registrant
is employed as an operations manager. The Complainant and Registrant entered settlement dialogue, and the Registrant initially agreed to transfer the domain to the Complainant if the
Complainant was willing to cover all of the Registrant’s costs. The matter did not settle. The Registrant
did not respond to the Complaint.
The
Panel found that the domain was clearly confusingly similar to the mark.
Furthermore, the Registrant had a pattern of registering domains identical to
the trademarks of others, which allowed the panel to infer bad faith.
You can read the decision here.
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