RPG Life Sciences Loses Domain Name Dispute for RPGLife.com Domain

RPG Life Sciences, a pharma company from India, has just lost a UDRP on the domain name RPGLife.com at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 2005.

RPG Life Sciences filed the complaint on the basis that they own registrations of both “RPG” and “RPG LIFE” in India.Moreover, the company contended that the respondent is being used in faith ” for the purpose of piggybacking on the goodwill and reputation of the Complainant in India and worldwide.”

The respondent argued that the ” consumers are not likely to be confused because the Disputed Domain Name comprises the word “RPG” and the trademarks of the Complainant do not grant exclusive rights to that word having regard to its widespread use as an acronym for the term “Role-Playing Game” or “RPG” putatively coined by American war-gamer Dave Arneson in 1974 to connote “a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. “

The Panel decided that RPG Life Sciences managed to demonstrate only one of the three elements required under the ICANN Policy.

You can read the complaint here.