Published Works | World Trademark Review | 29 March 2023

No rights or legitimate interests – but also no bad faith

Liquor Marketing Group Ltd, owner of the Australian trademark LMG, sought the transfer of ‘lmg.net.au’ under the ‘.au’ DRP. The panel found that the respondent had not produced any evidence to establish that it had rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. However, it was not bad faith for the respondent to have continued to own (but not use) the domain name after having been put on notice of the complainant’s trademark rights.

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