Legal Notice received from RPS Group regarding website

[webmaster]

RPS seems to be having a problem with any website/forum coming up to discuss their projects. As I said before, they are trying every tactics to stop/block any channel of communication between the residents. They are afraid of the growing community which they know can bring trouble for them looking at the progress of the project.

There is a secondary domain registered named http://www.savanaonline.com. RPS is aware of the domain name and they have mentioned that it is also a copyright violation since it contains SAVANA. Their attitude is getting ridiculous by the day.

Extract from the complaint notice.

The bad faith of the respondent while registering the instant infringing domain and during its use is further evident from his overall conduct. It specifically includes the registration of another domain (http://www.savanaonline.com) by the infringer in his name on 26th February 2010. This second domain also infringes the trademark and other IP rights of the Complainant in respect of the mark SAVANA. It is also notable that this second domain was for long redirected on the infringing domain and it was only after the receipt of legal notice by the Complainant, the Respondent removed this redirection after the first week of June 2010. It clearly confirms that the Respondent has and had the dishonest intention to take undue advantage of complainant's credibility and market goodwill. The Complainant is in the process of seeking appropriate legal remedy against Respondent in respect of the said other domain.

[Sudhanshu]

Hi all,
I am surprised that RPS has problem with savanaonline.com. we can fight a legal battle over issue. Having said that i would reiterate that this is not our core issue. If we can really fight with RPS than we will find that this issue comes in bottom in the priority list.
Regards
Sudhanshu

[mbhattacharya]

Hello,
Just wanted to comment upon Sudhanshu's observation that may be this is'nt a core issue for us to deal with right now but lets remember that if RPS can go to this length to stop us hosting a community website then god knows what they will do next if we decide to register a society????
Now they have problems with a website and next will be something else..so we should'nt be taking this one lightly and find out a way to reply to their legal notice.

So i believe we should now urgently work towards registering an association so that we can present them a common front as they must be thinking its easier to scare a single individual(jayanta) than a group of people.

Guys lets act fast NOW !!

Regards,

Madhusudhan Bhattacharya
Sapphireberry 11

[chintubajaj]

I totally agree with Madhusudhan..

I think we need to think logically and prepare ourselves so that Jayanta can respond to the notice.

Anyone know any lawyer who is expert in Cyber Laws? I think the only point of concerns is the domain name.. remaining stuff like writing facts about RPS.. no one can stop us from doing it.

Following is my proposal:

1. Stop the website with the domain name "RPS" in it (so that we have time to react to the notice) - This is just so that Jayanta does not get into any issues.

2. Create a yahoogroup and ensure that only the RPS flat owners sign-up (I am part of another similar group for JMD Gardens in Gurgaon.. and I can tell you that its been very very successfuly. We have meetings with JMD's MD quite frequently and have been able to influence lots of decisions).

Thanks,
Chintu

[webmaster]

This is the result of the domain dispute related to the domain http://www.rps-savana.co.in.

Below is the arbitration awarded after both party had submitted all documents related to the domain. Please refer to the attached pdf file for the complete document.

[dheerajjain]

Dear Jayanta,

I appreciate your dedication, hard work and sincerity in running forum against all odds

[anuj_bansal]

Hi Jayanta,

I hope this is the end of the legal case and RPS does not have any concerns with the current website/forum. I think myfaridabad.in has even expanded the horizon to issues which affect not only the RPS community, but the entire Neharpar area.

Really appreciate your efforts.

Regards
Anuj

[sanjeev2111]

Hi Jayanta,

Thanks for your initatives taken to group us all in Savana including Piyush and other projects. I did not go through the entire PDF file but does it mean that once you surrender the domain names he will d\withdrawn all legal cases against you.

Is is what is there or I understood it differently.

Sanjeev

[webmaster]

Just to update everyone, our initial domain rps-savana.co.in which we had to let go due to legal issues has been taken by RPS Group now.

The domain rps-savana.co.in was taken by RPS Group after we let the domain expire on 25th Feb 2011.