[ga] German Court acts against domain registrant's rights

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=229963&thesection=business&thesubsection=latest

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A brief quote:
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A German court has ruled that oil giant Shell has more right to the
www.shell.de internet domain name than an individual named Shell who
had already registered the name.

Deutsche Shell GmbH, the German unit of Royal Dutch/Shell, sued
Andreas Shell, who owned the address, over the right to use it.

The German federal court in Karlsruhe said in its ruling the use of
web addresses should be decided by determining which party had the
overriding interest in owning the name, even if someone else had
already registered it.
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Another:
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The name Shell was well known, the judge said, and most customers
would expect to find the firm's website at shell.de, not that of the
individual.
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This is a very bad decision.

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