UDRP: Girls Do Porn, but firm Doesn’t Do Trademarks well

Firm runs site that is rather descriptive of its services.

BLL Media Holdings has lost a UDRP it filed against Infinitoria Ltd over the domain name GirlDoPorn.com (in which “girl” in singular).

The complainant purports to run the site GirlsDoPorn.com (in which “girls” is plural).

BLL failed to show the World Intellectual Property Organization panelist that the domain name was confusingly similar to a mark in which it had rights.

The domain name GirlsDoPorn.com was originally registered in the name of another firm. The complainant tried to explain this discrepancy in a supplemental filing, stating that it was registered by a predecessor entity. But it didn’t provide any evidence of this.

Another problem for the complainant was that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused its trademark application for the phrase on the basis that it describes a feature of the Complainant’s services. (Think regarding it for a moment.)

John Berryhill represented the domain name owner.

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