{
    "case_number": "CAC-ADREU-005681",
    "time_of_filling": null,
    "domain_names": [],
    "case_administrator": null,
    "complainant": [],
    "complainant_representative": null,
    "respondent": [],
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    "factual_background": "In the absence of a Response, the Panel accepts the following assertions in the Compliant as established.\r\n\r\nThe Complainants are General Electric Company, a New York corporation which traces its origins to the year 1878 when the inventor Thomas Edison created the Edison Electric Light Company, and GE Capital EMEA Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric Company registered in England and Wales. General Electric Company is the proprietor of numerous registrations for the world famous trademark GE, first used in 1899, including Community Trade Mark No. 005920781, registered on May 19, 2008 and Austrian trade mark No. 77947, registered on August 1, 1974. GE Capital EMEA Services Limited uses the GE mark in Europe in connection with financial products and services under authorization and supervision of General Electric Company. The Complainants are hereinafter collectively referred to as “the Complainant.” \r\n\r\nThe disputed domain name was registered on June 22, 2009, since when it has been used for an online scheme that purports to offer to consumers “easy online loans” or “quick loans” for small amounts with no collateral. Consumers are asked to fill out an online application, which when approved requires the applicant to sign a contract, following which funds are allegedly paid out to the consumer within an hour. These loan services have been promoted through the Domain Name and a number of country-specific web sites for consumers in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic. On the web site located at GECREDIT.EU there have been links to these country-specific web sites at Gecredit.lv, Gecredit.cz, Gecredit.lt, and Gecredit.co.ee that each, in turn, have provided the same “easy online loans.”",
    "other_legal_proceedings": "None",
    "discussion_and_findings": "In the absence of a Response, the Panel accepts as established the facts asserted by the Complainant and draws all reasonable inferences therefrom.\r\n\r\nUnder Article 21 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 874\/2004, the Complainant must prove that the challenged domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a name in respect of which a right is recognised or established by national and\/or Community law and that either (a) the domain name has been registered by its holder without rights or legitimate interests in the name; or (b) the domain name has been registered or is being used in bad faith.  \r\n\r\nBoth of the Complainants have established rights recognised by both national and Community law in the world-famous GE trademark. The Panel finds the domain name GECREDIT to be confusingly similar to that mark. Given the fame of the Complainants' mark and its use in connection with financial services, the conclusion is inescapable that the domain name was not only registered by the Respondents without rights or legitimate interests in the domain name but that it has also been registered in bad faith and is being used in bad faith.\r\n\r\nThe Panel finds that  the second Complainant, GE Capital EMEA Services Limited, satisfies the general eligibility criteria for registration set out in Paragraph 4(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 733\/2002.",
    "decision": "For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with Paragraphs B12 (b) and (c) of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain name GECREDIT be transferred to the second Complainant, GE Capital EMEA Services Limited.",
    "panelists": [
        null
    ],
    "date_of_panel_decision": "2010-07-23 00:00:00",
    "informal_english_translation": "The Complainants have long held rights in the famous trademark GE, which they use, inter alia, in the field of financial services. The domain name GECREDIT was registered on June 22, 2009 and has been used for an online scheme that purports to offer to consumers “easy online loans” or “quick loans” for small amounts with no collateral. \r\n\r\nGiven the fame of the Complainants' mark and its use in connection with financial services, the conclusion is inescapable that the domain name was not only registered by the Respondent without rights or legitimate interests in the domain name but that it has also been registered in bad faith and is being used in bad faith.\r\n\r\nThe Panel orders that the domain name GECREDIT be transferred to the second Complainant.",
    "decision_domains": [],
    "panelist": null,
    "panellists_text": null
}