Words Want to Be Free: We’re In The Attention Business!

Case: D2001-0541

Domain(s): attbusiness.com, attbusiness.org

Complainant: AT & T Corp.

Respondent: Caimmi Rappresentanze & Marketing Italia

The Defense:

...the Respondent says that "attbusiness" in the Domain Names stands for "attention business" and appears to argue that the Complainant�s trade marks are not valid under international or Italian law as it is "not possible to consider a trade mark on word or more words together that are used in popular use, because these words are part of proprietary language of people".