Gaming regret domain name cyber squandered angry?

Xiamen, a cyberspace cybersquatting a global online game giant's domain name, the other party to court, Xiamen Intermediate People's Court yesterday found the company maliciously registered domain names, ordered the immediate cancellation of the domain name, and compensate each other 3,000.

Shanghai Shanda Network Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shanda) is currently the world's largest online game company. In June this year, Xiamen Chuangwang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as SkyNet) registered "grand" Pinyin shengda as cn Domain name, then filed a lawsuit to the Xiamen City Intermediate Court.

Shanda said the company, "Shanda" is both the size and abbreviation, but also a grand registered trademark, but also well-known trademarks. Since the founding of the company in 1999, Shanda has written a miracle in the development of online game companies at an alarming rate. The online game developed and operated by the company has a very high reputation and reputation. In 2006, the company achieved a profit of more than 3.1375 billion yuan and a total assets of more than 123.78 million yuan.

Shanda introduced the company's chairman Chen Tianqiao and other entrepreneurs of the public influence and enhance the "grand" brand value and status, making the grand company to become China's most famous online game company. "Grand" trademark is well-known to the public, with high reputation and can bring higher operating income and profits and taxes well-known trademarks.

Shanda believes that the record network company "shengda" registered as cn domain name, but the company does not have any interest in the domain name, there is no registration, use the domain name for legitimate reasons. Net is a network of enterprises, knowing that "grand" trademark of high visibility, is still registered and long-term holdings, the negative use of the domain name, exclusion and prevent the grand legitimate registration and use of the domain name rights, obviously malicious.

Shanda also believes that "Shengda", as the phonetic symbol of "Shanda" well-known trademark, will inevitably cause confusion and misunderstanding of the public once it is put into use as a domain name of cn, seriously damaging the immense intangible assets of Shanda and constituting the right of famous trademark owners unfair competition.

Shanda asked the court to identify the "grand" registered trademark as a well-known trademark and ordered the company to immediately stop infringement and cancel the registered domain name "www.shengda.cn" and compensate Shanda for 3,000 yuan to stop the infringement.

In response to the allegations by Shanda, InnoNet did not submit a written reply and was absent in court.

After hearing that the domain name of www.shengda.cn registered by the court was a parody of the well-known trademark "Shanda", the court held that it was not used for a long time and was intended to prevent Shanda from using it. The subjective malicious intention was obvious, Constitutes a trademark infringement of Shanda's trademark and orders the company to immediately write off the domain name and compensate for the corresponding losses.