With a stadium 10 times the size of a football field, taking pictures of a polo match is not easy. You just have to wait for the players to come closer to where you are standing. And when they do get a little closer, you have to quickly fire away as much as you can, trying to keep focus on the swiftly moving horses. But when they get very close to the boundary where you are standing and shooting from, they are too close for comfort to shoot – it is time to be alert, not to shoot!
One of the things that surprised me during the game was the absence of a goal keeper. I asked about it to my friend, an expert player himself. He confirms that there will be no one guarding the poles, and helpfully adds more information – “coming on the way of a horse is a foul.” I can understand why. Being on the way of these galloping horses can be a foul so costly, it would be remembered lifelong.
I could not have been more surprised when I read about Tata Sons making a claim for the domain name oktatabyebye.com
Tata Sons had filed a complaint with WIPO in June, claiming that “domain name <oktatabyebye.com> includes the word TATA, which is identical in part and confusingly similar” to their trade mark – ‘tata’. The sole panelist Pavan Duggal, who chaired the arbitration between the parties awarded the case in favour of Tata Sons and has asked the domain name to be transferred to Tata Sons.
One of the observations in the panel states that “a domain name wholly incorporates a complainant’s registered mark may be sufficient to establish identity or confusing similarity for purposes of the Policy despite the addition of other words to such marks.” and “Panel is of the opinion that the evidence of record does not show use of, or preparations to use, the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services”.
The panel also supports its argument by stating that the domain name is owned by Make My Trip, who should use the domain ‘makemytrip.com’ instead of oktatabyebye.com. They further state that some links were found on the homepage of oktatabyebye.com, which pointed to makemytrip.com and hence, oktatabyebye.com is used just to generate traffic to makemytrip.com. What is surprising here is that the panel conveniently omits the fact that there are also many internal links that lead to services offered to travellers within the domain of oktatabyebye.com.
Partha, an AVP at Make My Trip who manages oktatabyebye.com says in an email to their community members that –
“Oktatabyebye.com domain name is importantly a representative of the colloquial ‘OK Ta Ta Bye Bye’ phrase, which represents travel & journey related activities, referring to the generic word ‘Ta Ta’. We all regularly use the term for travel & goodbyes in our country, and across many others.
Would you say it is bizarre, that a word as generic in use as ‘Ta Ta’ used in our domain name could infringe a copyright and cause confusion? Or that oktatabyebye.com, in bad intention, or otherwise, seeks to cause confusion with TATA Sons, for its own gains?”
I would agree with Partha. A whole lot of community members also seem to agree. It also makes me wonder, if the panel verdict also means domain names highperformancenyc.com (a physical training facility in NYC) can be claimed by hp and cribmaster.com (an inventory management system) by IBM!
Also read:
http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/2009/08/oktatabyebyecom-cant-use-word-tata.html
http://www.flyyoufools.com/2009/08/30/tata-vs-oktatabyebye/
The cave temples are the best known structures in Badami. But nothing beats the grand setting of Bhoothanatha Temple. It is a great place to sit and listen to the sound of splashing water, watching the mild sun of the evening reflecting in the lake.
