VirtualPoint sues following being hit with UDRP
Maker of electric motorcycles filed UDRP following domain purchase negotiations failed.
VirtualPoint, the same firm that owns the UDRPsearch website, has sued a maker of electric motorcycles in a domain name dispute.
As stated by the lawsuit (pdf), VirtualPoint purchased the domain Voxan.com earlier this year. NameBio records show that it sold in a GoDaddy auction for $1,026. (It also sold at GoDaddy the prior year for $1,009.)
Shortly following that, VirtualPoint received purchase inquiries through a broker that did not identify itself as working with the firm Venturi, which owns the brand Voxan.
The two parties couldn’t reach an agreement. Venturi’s final offer was $40,050, as stated by the lawsuit. VirtualPoint’s final offer was $144,800.
Venturi then filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization that has not yet been decided.
VirtualPoint is seeking declaratory judgment that it’s not infringing Venturi’s mark, and for Venturi’s trademark to be canceled. Brett Lewis of Lewis & Lin is representing VirtualPoint.
