Saturday, September 5, 2009

Bye-Bye not Ta-Ta

Tata Group, one of the largest Indian conglomerates with interests in automobiles, steel, power, software etc. and makers of world’s cheapest car Nano, have won its suit against .
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) panel has awarded the ownership of domain  to the Tata group. is a travel community site owned by .
Though not very well versed in intellectual property laws, I feel that use of tata was in the domain name was not done with an intention to benefit from the brand franchise of the Tatas and considering that tata happens to be a common farewell description in India, this decision is bound to open a can of similar litigation.

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