Volume I

Issue : 11: November 27, 2003

• European Court Rules that Sounds Can be Trade-Marks
• Privacy Commissioner Finds After-the-fact Consent Ineffective
• UN Releases E-Commerce and Development Report 2003
• Internet E-Commerce Complaints Make Top Ten List in Consumer Complaints Survey
• Coca-Cola Ltd. Wins Right to "cocacola.ca" Via CIRA Domain Name Dispute Process
• FTC Comments on Consumer-Directed Promotion of Prescription Drugs
• Extraction of Public Domain Data from a Database Does Not Breach Copyright
• Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Landmark Case (Tariff 22)
• Alberta Enacts Privacy Legislation

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Coca-Cola Ltd. Wins Right to "cocacola.ca" Via CIRA Domain Name Dispute Process

Coca-Cola Ltd., owner of a number of trade-mark registrations in Canada, had filed a complaint with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) over the "cocacola.ca" domain name, which was registered in November 2000 by an individual residing in British Columbia. Finding in favour of Coca-Cola Ltd., a CIRA panel held that the cocacola.ca domain name was confusingly similar to the company's trade-marks, the owner of the domain name registration had no legitimate interest in the domain name, and the owner had registered the domain name in bad faith. The panel directed that the registration of the cocacola.ca domain name be transferred to Coca-Cola Ltd.

For a copy of the decision, visit:

http://www.cira.ca/en/dpr-decisions/00014-cocacola.ca.pdf