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Sanrio Company, Ltd. v. Impresa.Inc
Sanrio used the special .biz launch procedure to claim hellokitty.biz at the top-level domain’s debut.
Sanrio Company, Ltd.,
Plaintiff,
v.
Impresa.Inc (Nobuyoshi Matsueda, Tokyo),
Defendant.
Docket No.NAF Case No. FA0204000112477
CourtNational Arbitration Forum (STOP proceeding)
Filed2002
StatusDecided
The record
- Court
- National Arbitration Forum (STOP proceeding)
- Jurisdiction
- UDRP / STOP
- Docket No.
- NAF Case No. FA0204000112477
- Filed
- 2002
- Resolved
- 2002
- Sanrio’s role
- Plaintiff
- Type
- Domain (UDRP)
- Claims
- STOP — Start-up Trademark Opposition Policy for the .biz launch
- Counsel — plaintiff/petitioner
- not public
- Counsel — Sanrio side
- not public
What happened
Sanrio used the special .biz launch procedure to claim hellokitty.biz at the top-level domain’s debut.
Outcome
Domain <hellokitty.biz> transferred to Sanrio (9 July 2002, panelist Hon. Carolyn Marks Johnson).
The legal nuance
A STOP proceeding, the one-off cousin of the UDRP created for the 2002 .biz rollout.
Sources of record