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eBearing News - SNR Roulements Loses Bid to Grab SNR.com Website Name advertisement in all of eBearingnews 2007news 2006news 2005news 2004news 2003news 2002news 2001news 2000news 1999industry directorylegislation more The eBearing NewsJune 1, 2004SNR Roulements Loses Bid to GrabSNR.com Website Namecopyright © 2004 eBearing Inc.SNR Roulements (France, a division of Renault SAS)has lost what many Internet legal experts labeled a heavy-handed and unfairly arroganteffort to snatch the website name SNR.com from its current owners.SNR filed its claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitrationand Mediation Center in February 2004, under the Uniform Domain Name DisputeResolution Policy and Rules.WIPO allows companies to file to recover website names which have been registered inbad faith, by cybersquatters, ill-intentioned ex-employees, and others.A U.S. court explained cybersquatting in one of the first cases:"Any person who deliberately registers a domain name on account of its similarity to the name, brandname or trademark of an unconnected commercial organization must expect to find himself on thereceiving end of an injunction to restrain the threat of passing off, and the injunction will bein terms that will make the name commercially useless to the dealer."The World Wrestling Federation and Nike were among the earliest winners of cybersquatter cases,as were the New York Yankees with NewYorkYankees.com and actress Julia Roberts, for JuliaRoberts.com.SNR Roulements, however, did not fare as well.In March, the WIPO Center assigned a panelist to review SNR's claim and resolve the conflict.The U.S. Company, SNR Inc. (for Sandra n' Richard, a small semiconductor consulting organization)was founded in 1994, and registered the website name SNR.com. Although it was absorbed by anotherorganization in 2000, SNR Inc. had regularly advertised its services and used the SNR.com websiteaddress in its advertising. Currently, SNR.com has genealogical information for the Sandra 'nRichard's family, the owner taking down SNR.com's technical content as part of a multi-year noncompeteagreement with a new employer.The legal team for SNR Roulements, according to several experts, made a fundamental mistake in"shotgunning" the WIPO with "poorly researched claims against SNR Inc's right to SNR.com, thatranged from borderline sensible to pompously and preposterously arrogant."SNR Roulements, for example, argued that SNR.com should be turned over to them becausethe contact information for SNR.com had a wrong fax number, somehow proving bad faith.The company also claimed the family photo album on SNR.com was likely tocause confusion among SNR Roulements customers -- that customers might believe thefamily album was somehow the work of a bearing manufacturer. One analyst jokingly asked ifSNR Roulements really believed its customers were too stupid to know the difference between abearing and a family album.SNR Roulements later argued the U.S. SNR Inc. is now defunct after the merger and should thereforebe forced to turn over the SNR.com website name for that reason. The arbiter quickly found SNR Inc.'smerger clearly does not mean it therefore forfeits any business assets such as the SNR.com site name.SNR Roulements then claimed the current registrants were in fact "cyber squatters" seeking to sellSNR.com to the highest bidder. Never mind that the registrants had never tried to sell SNR.com.The investigator found the current registrants are regularly approached to sell SNR.comand always refuse.In fact, it emerged that SNR Roulements was one of those companies contacting SNR.com, in 1997,offering to buy the website name, otherwise threatening a lawsuit. When the owners refused,SNR Roulements did not choose to pursue the matter again until 2004, ten years after SNR.comhad been registered.The investigator found no malice of intention in SNR Inc.'s registration of SNR.com as itswebsite address, found no possible confusion between a bearing company and a genealogicalwebsite, and that SNR Roulements must cease trying to force SNR Inc. to relinquish the address.read the WIPO decision hereTo put the claim in perspective, SNR Roulements is one of approximately 5,000 companiesworldwide which might like to have SNR.com, ranging from SNR Corp., a timing device distributor,to the Sacramento News and Review, to the Society for Neuronal Regulation, to severalSchools of Natural Resources, to SNR Antiques, and thousands of others. Forcing its turnoverto SNR Roulements would be essentially arbitrary.SNR Roulements has registered SNR.fr, SNR.de, SNR-Bearings.com, SNRBearings.com and others.printer-friendly version- by Bruce A. 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