Fordirect.com - UDRP dispute rejected due to contamination (1.Viewing)

Panelists dispute how much private research panelists can undertake.


Two panelists in a World Intellectual Property Organization case have rejected the dispute based on the actions of the presiding panelist.

In one of the most bizarre UDRP cases I’ve ever read (pdf), panelists Sandra Franklin and Neil Anthony Brown argued that the presiding panelist, Reyes Campello Estebaranz, did too much private research of her own. Brown said she “contaminated” the case with private research. Estebaranz disagreed, saying she “deplores the direction which the majority members of this Panel have deemed fit to give to this case”.

There are a lot of harsh words between panelists, which is very rare.

The case involved the domain fordirect .com. Ford Motor Company argued that that the domain is cybersquatting on its Ford Direct trademark.


Source: UDRP case "contaminated" by presiding panelist - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Nice to see panelists keeping other panelists in check. Makes a great precedent for them to keep in mind.

Also makes me think of the recent ycd.ca and how I felt the panel made the complainant’s case and arguments for them.

Very strange thing here.

I feel same as points made above, I thought the Ycd case was fought by panelist and took so many things out of context and was not factual, the most ironic part is the one of panelist in case above appears to be same as in YCD case. In one case he says panelist did too much, seems very ironic.