An administrative panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently decided a case under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) between Eurail (the European joint venture supplying tickets and passes for rail and ship travel in Europe) as Complainant and Epasses of San Francisco as Respondent.
Eurail uses the names "Eurailticket" and "Eurail Pass" for its tickets and passes. It has registered "EURAIL" and "EURAILPASS" as trade-marks in the US and other countries. Epasses has a web site at
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