post.com - Deutsche Post gescheitert

Im Schiedsverfahren vor der World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO ist die Deutsche Post AG mit dem Versuch gescheitert die Domain post.com zu erstreiten.

Obwohl das Schiedspanel den Begriff “POST” als generisch einstufte gelang es der Deutschen Post mittels der nationalen Wortmarke (Registernummer: 300 12 966) eine Identität von Marke und Domain zu belegen.

The word ‘POST’ in the trademark is clearly a generic name, invoking principally the notion of postal services. The Panel is of course able to reach its own conclusion on this issue, having regard to its own understanding of what the word is taken in the general community to mean. But even if the question were left to a matter of evidence, the Panel finds that the material submitted by the Respondent, namely the dictionary definitions of ‘Post’ and the fact that the Respondent’s Google search yielded 972 million web pages containing the word ‘Post’ without ‘Deutsch or ‘DHL’ show conclusively as a matter of evidence that ‘Post’ is a generic word.

Allerdings scheiter…