Forex
One SA, a Polish on-line foreign money alternate supplier, has introduced plans to
attraction a latest court docket ruling associated to an ongoing authorized dispute with its competitor, Cinkciarz.pl, a part of Conotoxia Holding. The case has been ongoing since October 2013 and
entails alleged key phrase manipulation resulting in elevated on-line advert visibility
for Forex One.
As Finance
Magnates reported yesterday (Tuesday), the court docket determined that Cinkciarz.pl
ought to obtain financial compensation of PLN 2 million (EUR 440,000) from
Forex One. Nonetheless, the decision is just not remaining and Forex One intends to
attraction the court docket’s choice.
The dispute
revolves round using key phrases that might set off the looks of
Forex One’s ads in Google searches. The key phrase in query is ‘cinkciarz’:
a Polish time period additionally utilized in Cinkciarz. pl’s model title. ‘Cinkciarz’ was an individual
who, throughout the communist period, engaged within the unlawful alternate of PLN for
foreign exchange that weren’t formally in circulation.
Within the
lawsuit, Cinkciarz.pl argued that the time period ‘cinkciarz’ is now not in widespread use. They said that Forex One, through the use of this time period as a key phrase to place itself in search outcomes, negatively impacted Cinkciarz.pl’s enterprise. The implication right here is that Forex One leveraged a time period intently related to its competitor to achieve an unfair benefit in search engine visibility.
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Nonetheless, Forex One maintains that
‘cinkciarz’ is a phrase that many individuals nonetheless affiliate with foreign money alternate
and shouldn’t be handled as a trademark.
“The
chance of influencing the show of advertisements on this manner stays disputable.
It may be stated that up to now there has not been a remaining ruling in Poland
regarding contextual promoting within the Google Advertisements system that might give a
clear sign to the business,” Przemysław Szmidt, a Senior Lawyer at
Filipiak Babicz Authorized, commented in a press launch despatched to Finance Magnates.
The
allegations date again to the interval between 2011 and 2013, earlier than the merger of
Walutomat and InternetowyKantor.pl, the 2 unbiased entities now forming
Forex One. Again then, the businesses had distinct possession. In 2018, the
entities merged to change into Forex One below new possession.
“The
change of possession of the Firm came about in 2018, i.e., 5 years after the
occasions that had been the topic of the case,” Maciej Przygórzewski, the Head of
Operations at Forex One, defined.
Forex
One emphasised that the present management had no involvement with the
promoting actions that occurred over a decade in the past. The corporate views the
lawsuit as extra of a PR transfer, given the declare’s quantity far surpasses the
monetary efficiency of the corporate at the moment.
“We
ought to do not forget that the court docket discovered that the Cinkciarz.pl trademark was not
respected on the time when the dispute arose – because the plaintiff wished,”
Bartosz Jóżwiak, an lawyer for Forex One, commented. “On the opposite
hand, the difficulty of whether or not such use of components of a trademark is unfair or
creates a danger of confusion for the recipients is the topic of vigorous debate
in lots of jurisdictions, and the rulings should not clear-cut.”
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Forex
One has underscored that its promoting marketing campaign was not supposed to mimic
Cinkciarz.pl, however to current a comparable provide from an identifiable
competitor.
Marcin
Rogalski, Head of Enterprise Intelligence at Forex One famous that his firm
cooperated with authorized specialists, who had been granted entry to the analytical
methods and knowledge. This enabled a extra environment friendly conclusion of the preliminary
proceedings and allowed for a extra exact analysis of the competitor’s
claims.
The court docket
awarded roughly PLN 2.2 million associated to a bunch of shoppers acquired
between 2011 and 2013. Forex One disagrees with the first factors of the
judgment’s rationale and has introduced plans to attraction the ruling.
Forex
One SA, a Polish on-line foreign money alternate supplier, has introduced plans to
attraction a latest court docket ruling associated to an ongoing authorized dispute with its competitor, Cinkciarz.pl, a part of Conotoxia Holding. The case has been ongoing since October 2013 and
entails alleged key phrase manipulation resulting in elevated on-line advert visibility
for Forex One.
As Finance
Magnates reported yesterday (Tuesday), the court docket determined that Cinkciarz.pl
ought to obtain financial compensation of PLN 2 million (EUR 440,000) from
Forex One. Nonetheless, the decision is just not remaining and Forex One intends to
attraction the court docket’s choice.
The dispute
revolves round using key phrases that might set off the looks of
Forex One’s ads in Google searches. The key phrase in query is ‘cinkciarz’:
a Polish time period additionally utilized in Cinkciarz. pl’s model title. ‘Cinkciarz’ was an individual
who, throughout the communist period, engaged within the unlawful alternate of PLN for
foreign exchange that weren’t formally in circulation.
Within the
lawsuit, Cinkciarz.pl argued that the time period ‘cinkciarz’ is now not in widespread use. They said that Forex One, through the use of this time period as a key phrase to place itself in search outcomes, negatively impacted Cinkciarz.pl’s enterprise. The implication right here is that Forex One leveraged a time period intently related to its competitor to achieve an unfair benefit in search engine visibility.
Hold Studying
Nonetheless, Forex One maintains that
‘cinkciarz’ is a phrase that many individuals nonetheless affiliate with foreign money alternate
and shouldn’t be handled as a trademark.
“The
chance of influencing the show of advertisements on this manner stays disputable.
It may be stated that up to now there has not been a remaining ruling in Poland
regarding contextual promoting within the Google Advertisements system that might give a
clear sign to the business,” Przemysław Szmidt, a Senior Lawyer at
Filipiak Babicz Authorized, commented in a press launch despatched to Finance Magnates.
The
allegations date again to the interval between 2011 and 2013, earlier than the merger of
Walutomat and InternetowyKantor.pl, the 2 unbiased entities now forming
Forex One. Again then, the businesses had distinct possession. In 2018, the
entities merged to change into Forex One below new possession.
“The
change of possession of the Firm came about in 2018, i.e., 5 years after the
occasions that had been the topic of the case,” Maciej Przygórzewski, the Head of
Operations at Forex One, defined.
Forex
One emphasised that the present management had no involvement with the
promoting actions that occurred over a decade in the past. The corporate views the
lawsuit as extra of a PR transfer, given the declare’s quantity far surpasses the
monetary efficiency of the corporate at the moment.
“We
ought to do not forget that the court docket discovered that the Cinkciarz.pl trademark was not
respected on the time when the dispute arose – because the plaintiff wished,”
Bartosz Jóżwiak, an lawyer for Forex One, commented. “On the opposite
hand, the difficulty of whether or not such use of components of a trademark is unfair or
creates a danger of confusion for the recipients is the topic of vigorous debate
in lots of jurisdictions, and the rulings should not clear-cut.”
Forex One Will Enchantment
Forex
One has underscored that its promoting marketing campaign was not supposed to mimic
Cinkciarz.pl, however to current a comparable provide from an identifiable
competitor.
Marcin
Rogalski, Head of Enterprise Intelligence at Forex One famous that his firm
cooperated with authorized specialists, who had been granted entry to the analytical
methods and knowledge. This enabled a extra environment friendly conclusion of the preliminary
proceedings and allowed for a extra exact analysis of the competitor’s
claims.
The court docket
awarded roughly PLN 2.2 million associated to a bunch of shoppers acquired
between 2011 and 2013. Forex One disagrees with the first factors of the
judgment’s rationale and has introduced plans to attraction the ruling.
