{ "case_number": "CAC-UDRP-107435", "time_of_filling": "2025-03-25 14:23:14", "domain_names": [ "amundiltd.com" ], "case_administrator": " Iveta Špiclová (Czech Arbitration Court) (Case admin)", "complainant": [ "AMUNDI ASSET MANAGEMENT" ], "complainant_representative": "NAMESHIELD S.A.S.", "respondent": [ "Maxim" ], "respondent_representative": null, "factual_background": "

The Complainant is a prominent French company engaged in asset management and the provision of related goods and services. As well as its aforesaid trademark, it owns the <amundi.com> domain name which it uses in its business to promote its financial services. It has come to the Complainant's notice that the Respondent has registered the domain name <amundiltd> and used it for a website that offers competing financial services to those of the Complainant. The Complainant maintains that this is inimical to the Complainant and its business and accordingly it has instituted this proceeding to have the domain name transferred to itself.<\/span><\/p>", "other_legal_proceedings": "

The Panel is not aware of any other legal proceedings which are pending or decided and which relate to the Disputed Domain Name.<\/span><\/p>", "no_response_filed": "

CONTENTIONS OF THE PARTIES<\/span><\/p>\n

A) COMPLAINANT<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The Complainant is a well-known French company engaged in the management of assets and is one the largest companies operating in that field internationally.  <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Complainant is the owner of the aforesaid international trademark for AMUNDI (“the AMUNDI trademark”), registered number 1024160, registered on September 24,2009 and provides its goods and services under that trademark.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Complainant has registered numerous domain names including the domain name <amundi.com> which it registered on August 26, 2004 and which it uses to promote and offer its goods and services on the internet.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The Respondent registered the <amundiltd.com> <\/strong>domain name on March 21, 2025 (“the Disputed Domain Name”).<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The Respondent has caused the Disputed Domain Name to resolve to a website that is used to offer financial services competing with those of the Complainant.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The Disputed Domain Name is confusingly similar to the AMUNDI trademark as it embodies the entire AMUNDI trademark, the additional term “ltd” which signifies a limited company and the generic Top Level Domain ”.com”, which would inculcate in the minds of internet users the notion that the Disputed Domain Name is related to the AMUNDI trademark and the Complainant's status as a company.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Name as:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

           (a) the Respondent is not commonly known by the Disputed Domain Name within the meaning of paragraph 4(c)(ii) of the Policy;<\/span><\/p>\n

           (b) the Respondent is not affiliated with or related in any way to the Complainant, has not been authorized by it to register or use the Disputed Domain Name and does not carry on any activity or have any business with the Complainant;<\/span><\/p>\n

           (c) the Disputed Domain Name resolves to a website that offers financial services competing with those of the Complainant;<\/span><\/p>\n

           (d) the Disputed Domain Name is not used by the Respondent to make a bona fide<\/em> offering of goods or services within the meaning of paragraph 4(c)(i) of the Policy; and<\/span><\/p>\n

           (e) the Disputed Domain Name is not used by the Respondent to make a noncommercial, legitimate or fair use of it within the meaning of paragraph 4(c)(iii) of the Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. The Respondent has registered and used the Disputed Domain Name in bad faith as:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

             (a) the Respondent has registered the Disputed Domain Name which is confusingly similar to the AMUNDI trademark;<\/span><\/p>\n

             (b) the Respondent has caused the Disputed Domain Name to resolve to a website that offers financial services competing with those of the Complainant;<\/span><\/p>\n

            (c) the Respondent had actual knowledge of the Complainant and its AMUNDI trademark at the time it registered the Disputed Domain Name;<\/span><\/p>\n

            (d) the registration and use of the Disputed Domain Name was calculated to and has the potential effect of generating confusion with the Complainant’s AMUNDI trademark within the meaning of paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      1. Accordingly, the Complainant contends that it will be able to establish all of the elements it must prove under the Policy and that it is entitled to the relief it seeks, namely the transfer of the Disputed Domain Name to itself.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        B) RESPONDENT<\/span><\/p>\n

        The Respondent did not file a Response in this proceeding.<\/span><\/p>\n

         <\/strong><\/p>", "rights": "

        The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown that the Disputed Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy).<\/span><\/p>", "no_rights_or_legitimate_interests": "

        The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Respondent to have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Disputed Domain Name (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy).<\/span><\/p>", "bad_faith": "

        The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown that the Disputed Domain Name has been registered and is being used in bad faith (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy).<\/span><\/p>", "procedural_factors": "

        The Panel is satisfied that all procedural requirements under UDRP were met and that there is no other reason why it would be inappropriate to provide a decision.<\/span><\/p>", "decision": "Accepted", "panelists": [ "Neil Brown" ], "date_of_panel_decision": "2025-04-20 00:00:00", "informal_english_translation": "

        The Complainant has established that it is the owner of the international trademark for AMUNDI, registered number 1024160, registered on September 24, 2009 (“the AMUNDI trademark”).<\/span><\/p>", "decision_domains": { "amundiltd.com": "TRANSFERRED" }, "panelist": null, "panellists_text": null }