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Jiang Haixin v. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V.A Case of Disputes over A Computer Network Domain Name (A Case of Disputes over A Computer Network Domain Name)
蒋海新诉飞利浦公司计算机网络域名纠纷案
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Jiang Haixin v. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V.A Case of Disputes over A Computer Network Domain Name (A Case of Disputes over A Computer Network Domain Name)
(A Case of Disputes over A Computer Network Domain Name)
蒋海新诉飞利浦公司计算机网络域名纠纷案

Jiang Haixin v. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V.(A Case of Disputes over A Computer Network Domain Name)@#

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BASIC FACTS@#

Plaintiff: Jiang Haixinm, male, 30 years old, domiciled in No. 101 Alley, Hu Qingping Highway, Shanghai@#
Defendant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. Address: Groenewoudseweg,Eindhoven, the Netherlands@#
Plaintiff Jiang Haixin lodged a lawsuit in with the Second Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai against Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. (hereinafter referred to as the Philips) due to disputes over the computer network domain name.@#
The plaintiff alleged that, due to the complaint of the defendant, the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (hereinafter referred to as the WIPO) requested the plaintiff to transfer its registered domain name, philipscis. com, to the defendant. The plaintiff asserts: (1) The trademark “PHILIPS” of the defendant consists of 7 letters, but the domain name registered by the plaintiff is “philipscis.com”, which had 3 more letters - “cis” – than the trademark of the defendant. The letters “cis” or “scis”, if as an English abbreviation, would have relatively wide meanings other than the mark of one of the departments of the defendants, namely Communication, Security & Imaging (hereinafter referred to as the CSI). The domain name registered by the plaintiff isn't neither identical nor similar to the trademark of the defendant, which so it would not lead to any confusion. The defendant shouldn't claim that all domain names containing letters “Philips” should be owned by it. (2) The domain name “philipscis. com” is composed of three parts, namely a common English name for the male –“Philip”, “sc” and “is”. He registered the aforesaid domain name not only because philip was a common name, but also because he had been using the word as his English name since he was young; “sc” was the abbreviation for his place of domicile – Shanghai China; “is” was the abbreviation for internet system or internet server. All these words had special meanings for him. He registered them as a domain name for no malicious purpose. (3) Prior to the occurrence of the domain name dispute between him and the defendant, he had already completed the search registration by using the search engines - “google.com” and “yahoo.com” - so as to make the “philipscis.com” be known to the internet users. On the website opened by using this domain name, there were his own company's dynamic logos both in Chinese and English in the eye-catching places, which showed that the owner of the website wouldn't mislead any internet user. Upon authorization of a special distributor of Philips' security and communication products, the plaintiff sold but and only sold the communication, imaging and security products, technical support and services of the defendant to users through this website. The plaintiff hadn't regarded the defendant as its competitor, nor interfered with its business operations, thus he reasonably used the domain name in good faith. (4) After the plaintiff gave publicity of promoted the website called “philipscis.com” to the internet users, the defendant initiated the disputes over the domain name via the WIPO for the purpose of seizing the plaintiff's domain name in bad faith. (5) The Arbitration and Mediation Center of the WIPO, by appointing a single expert, heard the domain name disputes initiated by the defendant. When Liang Huisi, a citizen of Singapore, heard this case in China by acting as an expert, he was familiar with Chinese language and characters, but due to the inevitable disparities in geographical areas, cultural understandings and expressions, as well as his personal prejudice and other factors, the arbitration result award was unfair. The plaintiff registered and used “philipscis .com” without infringing upon the trademark right of the department, the award made by the expert team of WIPO lacked legal basis. Accordingly the plaintiff pleaded the court: (a) to revoke or stop executing the award make made by the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the WIPO; (b) to confirm that “philipscis.com” should be owned by the plaintiff.@#
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蒋海新诉飞利浦公司计算机网络域名纠纷案@#
【裁判摘要】@#
根据最高人民法院《关于审理涉及计算机网络域名民事纠纷案件适用法律若干问题的解释》第五条的规定,注册、使用的域名与他人的注册商标相同或近似,且无正当的注册、使用理由,并足以造成相关公众误认的,应认定为恶意注册、使用域名。@#
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原告:蒋海新,男,30岁,住上海市沪青平公路101弄。@#
被告:荷兰皇家飞利浦电子股份有限公司(Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.),住所地:荷兰爱恩德霍芬市格鲁内沃德斯路(Groenewoudseweg,Eindhoven,The Netherlands)。@#
原告蒋海新因与被告荷兰皇家飞利浦电子股份有限公司(以下简称飞利浦公司)发生计算机网络域名纠纷,向上海市第二中级人民法院提起诉讼。@#
原告诉称:经被告投诉,世界知识产权组织(以下简称WIPO)的仲裁与调解中心裁决,将原告注册的philipscis.com域名转移给被告。原告认为:1.被告的商标是 PHILIPS七个字母,而原告注册的域名是 philipscis.com,比被告的商标多出cis这三个字母。至于多出的cis或者scis,如果作为英文简称,会有比较广泛的含义,不是被告下属的通讯保安及视像产品部门(Communication,Security & Imaging,简称CSI)的标识。原告注册的域名与被告的商标既不相同也不相似,不会混淆。被告不能认为凡包含PHILIPS字样的域名,均应归其所有。2.域名philipscis.com,是由通用的男性英文名philip以及sc、is三部分构成。原告将其作为域名注册,不仅因为其中的philip是通用名称,还因为这个词是原告自年轻时就使用的英文名;而sc是原告居住地Shanghai China(中国上海)的缩写,is是Internet System (互联网系统)或Internet Server(电脑伺服器)的缩写。对原告来说,这些单词都具有特殊的含义。原告将其注册为域名,没有任何恶意。3.早在被告与原告发生域名争议前,原告就利用google.com、yahoo.com搜索引擎进行了搜索登记,使philipscis.com域名为互联网用户公知。在以这个域名开通的网站上,原告在明显部位标识了自己公司的LOG中英文动态标志,表明了网站所有人,不会造成互联网用户的误认。在这个网站上,原告经飞利浦保安及通讯系统特级经销商授权,向用户销售且仅销售被告公司的通讯、视像、保安系统产品、技术支持与服务。原告既没有将被告公司作为自己的竞争对手,也没有干扰被告公司的经营活动,因而是合理、善意地使用这个域名。4.在原告将以philipscis.com为域名的网站推向互联网广大用户后,被告通过WIPO提起域名之争,具有恶意侵夺原告域名的动机。5.WIPO的仲裁与调解中心采用独任专家形式审理被告提起的域名之争。新加坡公民梁慧思作为专家审理中国的案件时,尽管其熟悉中国的语言和文字,但不可避免地存在地域、文化理解和表述上的差异,并且还带有个人偏向及其他因素,从而导致审理结果不公。原告注册使用philipscis.com域名,并不侵犯被告的商标权,WIPO专家组的裁决没有依据。故请求判令:一、撤销或停止执行WIPO仲裁与调解中心的裁决;二、将域名philipscis.com判归原告所有。@#
被告辩称:飞利浦公司的PHILIPS商标,自1891年就在荷兰注册,之后又在包括中国在内的世界许多国家注册。飞利浦公司花费巨资维护该商标,使其成为公司最重要的财产之一。被告认为:1.争议域名的前7个字母与被告的PHILIPS商标完全相同,易引起混淆。2.被告从未授权原告在其网站上使用PHILIPS商标及标语,原告无视被告发出的要求其停止使用争议域名的信函,继续使用这个争议域名,而原告并未因使用这个域名而被普遍认知,其对这个域名不享有法律上的利益。3.原告不仅使用包含PHILIPS商标的域名开通自己的网站,还在该网站上复制被告网站主页样式,销售被告的“通讯及视像保安系统”产品和推广相关的服务,甚至把被告享誉全球的服务标语“let's make things better”(让我们做得更好)也拿来在自己的网站上使用;原告的另一个中文网站philipscss.com.cn上的内容,与这个网站相同。在明知PHILIPS商标是驰名商标的情形下,原告仍注册并这样使用包含PHILIPS商标的域名,其恶意是明显的。4.WIP0专家组的审理,无论从程序还是实体,都符合有关知识产权条约的规定。综上,原告注册并使用争议域名的行为,确实侵犯了被告的商标权,因此其诉讼请求应当驳回。@#
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