Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of popular Blackberry smart phones, has clinched a victory in an Internet domain name dispute against an Indian firm at the World Intellectual Property Right Organisation (WIPO).
The Canadian phonemaker had challenged the registration of three domain names – blackbberry.Com, blckberry.Com and bllackberry.Com – by MumbaiDomains, a Mumbai-based firm, at the WIPO, stating they were similar to its trademark Blackberry, and could be confused with it.
“Save for the addition/deletion of a single letter, the disputed domain names are visually and phonetically identical to the famous Blackberry trademark, which also supports a finding of confusion,” RIM had contended before the WIPO.
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