Constantinos Roussos Of DotMusic Limited has responded to our post about the 1st WIPO decision denying the Legal Rights Objections filed against an applicant for .Music
It should be noted as of time of publication of the 25 objections filed with WIPO all 25 have been denied.
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Here is Mr. Roussos statement:
“”We are certainly very disappointed with this decision. ”
“There are some serious inaccuracies in the decision which we obviously have issues with. For example the Panelist claims:
“The LRO Trademarks are registered in the name of “Constantinos Roussos”, and not the name of the Objector.” All the panelist had to do is go to: http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_SearchBasic then under “Trade mark name” select “is” in the drop-down and enter “.music” -
Clearly says DotMusic Limited is Owner hence the objector.
Just the mere fact that he failed to do simple research to determine who the Owner is I think speaks volumes.
Also we provided Panelists ample evidence and he fully ignored our press, outreach and significant branding efforts that we are commonly known as both .MUSIC and DotMusic.
He determined that .MUSIC as ” likely to be referred to by consumers and Internet users as “dotmusic.”"
This is quite a stretch since our music community and supporters and MCMO partners know the brand and product is “.MUSIC.” Registrants and the channel of trade refer to the brand as .MUSIC and obviously registrants – those consuming the .MUSIC community-based brand – will be calling it .MUSIC.
The press and all media calls it .MUSIC. Seems the Panelist has ignored everything we have said.
Simple question.
Do registrants of .COM refer to .COM as “.COM” or “dotcom”?
I think it is pretty clear that adding the dot (.) is of significance here and of course this panelist conveniently made this argument that potential registrants and our channel of trade calls our product and brand “dotmusic”.
All he had to do is read all the publications and press we sent them and most importantly our support.
The obviously know it is .MUSIC and when they talk to others they obviously call it .MUSIC in order to signify to others that it is a domain name. This ruling makes no sense. Do you believe a registrant will go to register a .MUSIC and think they will be registering “dotmusic” which is not a domain name?
Zero chance.
We put a whole article explaining our views before this decision was made on this at: http://music.us/why_WIPO_must_uphold_Legal_Rights_Objections_LRO_for_DotMusic_brand.htm
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but the bottom line is all our branding over the years and support is seen as worthless by this Panel.…
