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| | WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2003-0051 |
 | | Complainants are The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, and National National Westminster Westminster Bank plc, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Northern Ireland, represented by Cogent IPC Ltd. also of London, United Kingdom of Great Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
 | | In this respect, Complainants first allege that at no time were Respondents known as NATIONAL WESTMINSTER or NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK and that Respondents never, whether as a business or as an individual, used the names or has been referred to or commonly known, under those, even as nicknames. |
 | | The Panel is satisfied that Complainants have registered trademark rights in those two marks and is also satisfied that the names NATIONAL WESTMINSTER and NATIONAL NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK have been used in connection with banking and financial services and have become sufficiently distinctive for NatWest Bank to have acquired common law trademark rights. |
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