Practical Law Company: WIPO panel allows use of SHELL trade marks in domain names of criticism websites: “Tuesday 23 August 2005

The World Intellectual Property Organisation's Arbitration and Mediation Centre has refused to order the transfer of the domain names royaldutchshellgroup.com, royaldutchshellplc.com and tellshell.org from a registrant who used the names to link to a website critical of Shell's activities, holding that the registrant had a legitimate right to use the domain names to exercise his freedom of expression and had not registered them in bad faith.

http://ipandit.practicallaw.com/1-201-1713

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