The Arbitration and Mediation Centre of WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) has ruled that the three domain names, "isostnandards.org", "isostandards.net" and "iso-qa.com" being used by a private company on Internet were "confusingly similar" to ISO's trademark and had been registered and were being used "in bad faith". It has ordered that the three names the transferred to ISO.Acknowledging that the ISO mark is "highly regarded and carries with it a reputation for integrity", WIPO stated in its official notification of the ruling that the use of "ISO" in conjunction with the word "standards" evoked the nature of ISO's business, while the linking of "ISO" with "qa"-which stands for "quality assurance" -evoked an unwarranted implication of standards compliance assessments.
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