Case fileDomain (UDRP)
Sanrio Company, Ltd. v. Jang Hwan Bae
An early Korean-market domain recovery for the KITTY marks.
Sanrio Company, Ltd.,
Plaintiff,
v.
Jang Hwan Bae (South Korea),
Defendant.
Docket No.WIPO Case No. D2003-0108
CourtWIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Filed2003
StatusDecided
The record
- Court
- WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
- Jurisdiction
- UDRP
- Docket No.
- WIPO Case No. D2003-0108
- Filed
- 2003
- Resolved
- 2003
- Sanrio’s role
- Plaintiff
- Type
- Domain (UDRP)
- Claims
- UDRP — confusingly similar; bad faith
- Counsel — plaintiff/petitioner
- not public
- Counsel — Sanrio side
- not public
What happened
An early Korean-market domain recovery for the KITTY marks.
Outcome
Domain <kittykorea.com> transferred to Sanrio (24 April 2003, sole panelist Young Hwangbo). Korean-language decision.
The legal nuance
One of only four Sanrio filings ever recorded at WIPO.
Sources of record