New Delhi, Sep 28 : Tata Sons, the investment holding firm for the Tata Group, has won a domain case at the World Intellectual Property Organisation against Canada-based Toronto Asia Tele Access.
Toronto Asia Tele Access, whose abbreviated form is 'TATA', claims it provides long distance communication services and has been using a domain name 'tata-telecom.com'.
"The domain tata-telecom.com be transferred to the complainant (Tata Sons)," WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center said in its judgement.
On May 21 this year, Tata Sons filed a complaint against Toronto Asia Tele Access at Geneva-based WIPO, a UN agency.
Tata Sons had contended that Canadian firm had no rightor legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
Toronto Asia Tele Access is not commonly known by the disputed domain name but is instead commonly known as "Toronto Asia Tele Access Telecom, Inc", Tata Sons said.
"The respondent (Canadian entity) registered the disputeddomain name in order to exploit and profit from complainant's (Tata) trademark rights," Tata Sons said in its contention at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center demanding transferof disputed domain name.
WIPO is a specialised agency of the United Nations fordeveloping a balanced and accessible international system inthe field of intellectual property rights.
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