The Complainant is Alibaba Innovation Private Limited, a company belonging to the Alibaba Group, a leading Chinese multinational conglomerate founded on June 28, 1999, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The Group operates globally across a wide range of sectors including e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. It offers consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services through both Chinese and international marketplaces. In addition, the Group provides services in digital media and entertainment, logistics, and cloud computing. Alibaba Innovation Private Limited is part of this global ecosystem, which also includes entities such as Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. and Alibaba.com Corporation.<\/p>\n
Alibaba is one of the world’s largest companies in the fields of retail and e-commerce and is active in over 190 countries. In 2020, the company was ranked as the fifth-largest artificial intelligence enterprise globally. Through its fintech subsidiary, Ant Group, Alibaba also operates as the world's second-largest financial services provider after Visa. Furthermore, it is recognized as one of the most prominent venture capital and investment firms worldwide.<\/p>\n
Alibaba operates its online marketplace across all major segments: B2B (Alibaba.com), C2C (Taobao), and B2C (Tmall). The Group has also significantly expanded into the media, entertainment and artificial intelligence sectors, with revenues in these areas growing at a triple-digit rate year over year. During the 2018 edition of China’s Singles’ Day – the world’s largest online and offline shopping event – Alibaba set a global sales record.<\/p>\n
As part of its AI strategy, Alibaba has developed QWEN, a family of large language models (LLMs) designed for multilingual understanding, reasoning, and enterprise applications. These models are accessible via Alibaba Cloud and form the foundation of the Group’s generative AI ecosystem.<\/p>\n
The Complainant has systematically promoted its QWEN models through a series of public releases, both internationally and domestically. Between 2023 and 2025, Alibaba Cloud issued numerous official announcements – via its global press room, Alzilla, and Chinese platforms such as Baidu – highlighting the open-sourcing, technical upgrades, and enterprise adoption of Qwen models. These releases demonstrate a coordinated communication strategy aimed at establishing QWEN as a leading open source. Among various countries, QWEN has also gained significant visibility in Russia, as evidenced by multiple articles published by well-known local tech media outlets such as IncRussia, Habr, VC.ru, and 3DNews, which extensively covered its multimodal capabilities and competitive positioning.<\/p>\n
The QWEN model has achieved top-tier recognition across several international and Chinese AI benchmarks, including OpenCompass, the Open LLM Leaderboard, Compass Arena, and Chatbot Arena. Specifically, QWEN-72B, QWEN2-72B, and QWEN2.5 consistently ranked first or among the top performers in evaluations published between 2023 and 2024, with scores demonstrating superior performance compared to other open-source models. These results have been widely documented by official sources and leading technological media outlets.<\/p>\n
Alibaba has actively showcased its QWEN models at major industry events, including the APSARA Conference held annually in Hangzhou. The QWEN models were exhibited in the 2023, 2024, and 2025 editions of the conference, as evidenced by official event schedules and photographic documentation. These exhibitions serve as further proof of the public disclosure and promotion of the QWEN models to both domestic and international audiences. In addition to its global promotional efforts, Alibaba’s QWEN brand has also been showcased at major international technology events such as at the recent World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2025 in Shanghai, QWEN was presented alongside other leading AI innovations during sessions that included the BRICS Win-Win Cooperation Forum, which welcomed representatives from Russia. This demonstrates QWEN’s visibility in forums fostering cross-border collaboration and its relevance to markets beyond China.<\/p>\n
The Complainant’s AI model family was originally launched under the name “Tongyi Qianwen”, which is the Chinese designation of the technology. In international and technical contexts, the Complainant adopted the abbreviated name “QWEN” to refer to the same suite of large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models (MLLMs). This equivalence is explicitly confirmed in official communications by Alibaba Cloud, which states that “QWEN (also known as Tongyi Qianwen)” refers to the same proprietary AI model family. Accordingly, the term “QWEN” has become the globally recognized identifier of the Complainant’s technology.<\/p>\n
The Complainant registered the domain name QWEN.NET on March 18, 2023, followed by QWEN.AI on August 27, 2023, which resolves to the Complainant’s official website <\/span>https:\/\/qwen.ai\/. Consequently, within the broader domain of multimodal AI technologies QWEN has emerged as a distinctive identifier closely associated with the Complainant’s brand and product suite.<\/p>\n The Complainant has consistently promoted the “QWEN” denomination across major online platforms, including the official website <\/span>https:\/\/qwen.ai\/, as well as verified accounts on leading social media and developer environments such as GitHub, Hugging Face, X, Discord, or LinkedIn.<\/p>\n According to the Registrar Verification, the Disputed Domain Name was acquired by the Respondent on January 30, 2025, even though its original registration dates back to February 6, 2024 without authorization. It currently resolves to the website https:\/\/qwen.org\/ that makes unauthorized reference to the Complainant’s “QWEN” model series. Given that the website offers services in the same field – namely AI-based technology – this use is likely to mislead consumers and create confusion regarding a potential affiliation with the Complainant.<\/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.<\/p>",
"no_response_filed": " The Complainant contends that the requirements of the Policy have been met and that the disputed domain name should be transferred to it. The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown 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).<\/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).<\/p>",
"bad_faith": " The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown 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).<\/p>",
"procedural_factors": " The Panel is satisfied that all procedural requirements under UDRP were met and there is no other reason why it would be inappropriate to provide a decision.<\/p>",
"decision": "Accepted",
"panelists": [
"Udo Pfleghar B.A. (Melb.)"
],
"date_of_panel_decision": "2025-12-22 00:00:00",
"informal_english_translation": " The Complainant holds multiple trademark registrations that include or consist of the term “QWEN” across various jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the European Union. Additionally, several applications are currently pending in other countries and regions. These registrations cover a range of goods and services, notably under Nice Classes 9 and 42.<\/p>\n The trademark portfolio of the Complainant includes the following registrations:<\/p>\n
No administratively compliant Response has been filed.<\/p>",
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