IOC wins case over domain name
Mumbai   31-Jan-2011

State-run IndianOil (IOC) has won its legal battle over ownership rights to the internet domain name indianoil.org, which was misappropriated by a US-based businessman. IOC was granted the exclusive right to the domain name by the World Intellectual Property Organisations (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Panel. WIPO disallowed the claim of Nitin Jindal - the owner of web search engine GoDaddy.com - that he was entitled to own the website, as it was deceptively similar to IOC’s ‘IndianOil’ trademark.