In an unusual and interesting ruling,WIPO denied IBM’s complaint against White Label Energy GmbH for transfer of the domain name OpenPower.org .

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has denied IBM’s complaint against White Label Energy,even though IBM has a trademark on the term “Oepn Power” .

The Panel said that the company abandoned Open Power eight years ago,in 2005,and therefore it was unlikely the respondent had the trademark in mind when decided to register the domain name .

According to whois records ,the domain name was registered August 19th,2010 .IBM registered the trademark for the term “Open Power” on November 21,2005.

OpenPower.org domain name redirects to a website containing the following message : “The following updates installed,please come back later” .