GE and small boss compete for domain name: GE domain name transfer not supported

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November 5, called "Ant stroke Elephant" Ningbo small boss and General Electric Lighting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as GE lighting) The scramble for domain names. Yevenlong the gelighting.com.cn with the domain name, triggering a scramble for GE lighting. The daily economic news reporter learned that, in the judgement of 5th, GE Lighting proposed a domain name transfer request was not supported by the court, but the court also asked Yevenlong to stop the GE Lighting trademark infringement, and compensation for each other costs amounted to 100,000 yuan.

The case dates back to 2006. Yevenlong had told reporters that he was in Ningbo, a lighting company to do sales, registration domain name, in order to tie in with the company's name "General Electric", he according to "General Electric" generalelectrics abbreviation, plus "lighting" meaning, on the combination of gelighting , Registered gelighting.com.cn.

The daily economic news reporter got the verdict, the court found that the domain name on December 9, 2002 ~2006 August 2 belongs to GE Lighting, after the number of units registered, deleted. April 17, 2007, the domain registrant changed to Yevenlong, and has undergone several changes since then.

Yevenlong said he found the domain name appeared on the packaging of GE Lighting products in his business. At the end of 2007, a senior legal advisor at GE Asia Pacific met with Yevenlong to ask Yevenlong to transfer the domain name at a price of 1.5 million yuan. Yevenlong did not accept the offer, and his solution was to be transferred at a price of 5 million yuan and he would act as the regional sales agent for GE Lighting products and maintain the site. The two sides negotiated a breakdown and entered the legal process.

Yevenlong's lawyer, Zishao, told reporters yesterday that the dispute over domain names had been arbitrated by the Beijing secretariat of the Asian Domain name Settlement Center. Data show that June 6, 2008, the arbitration results do not support the complainant GE lighting requirements to transfer domain name, support Yevenlong is the owner of the domain name.

However, the two sides did not give up, Yevenlong subsequently sued GE Lighting on the product of the use of this domain name infringement, and GE Lighting on December 17, 2008 filed a lawsuit against Yevenlong, asked to transfer domain names.

Yevenlong to the daily economic news reporter's verdict, GE Lighting in the Haidian District People's court filed in the lawsuit, that Yevenlong suspected infringement of GE trademarks and unfair competition, the domain name transfer to GE Lighting, and asked Yevenlong in the media public apology and compensation for economic losses.

Zishao said the site's content contains GE's trademarks. Currently Yevenlong has removed these content from the site and stopped operating.

In the judgment of 5th, the court asked Yevenlong to stop using the domain name infringement GE trademark exclusive right of the Act, and asked Yevenlong compensation for the other party economic losses and litigation reasonable expenditure of 100,000 yuan. However, the request for Domain name transfer by GE Lighting was dismissed.

GE Lighting, Aoshuang, told reporters yesterday that GE Lighting still wanted to get the domain, and that the company was still discussing the issue, and there was no clear next steps. She said it was not clear if there was any possibility of negotiating with the other. Yevenlong and Zishao said they had not yet decided whether to appeal.