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Name hit with UDRP — Patient.com domain

UK health software firm claims that owner of Patient.com is cybersquatting.

Egton Medical Information Systems Limited, an electronic healthcare records software firm, has filed a UDRP against the domain name Patient.com.

The domain name was registered in 1997 but was purchased at Sedo in 2012, as stated by historical whois records. I don’t believe the sale was ever made public. The domain name right now resolves to a “coming soon” page.

Egton owns a consumer facing website called Patient.co.uk.

It appears that Egton, which primarily serves the UK market, just filed a trademark application in the United Kingdom for “Patient”. (Go to page 2 of this link to see it.) The application was filed February 10 and is still under examination.

Barring any extreme circumstances here, I can’t help but think that Egton is seriously misunderstanding or abusing the policy.

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