The lawyer. Giacomo Bonelli, a partner of MBG, has successfully assisted BPM Bank in the reassignment in his favor of the domain names “bancobpm.com” and “banco-bpm.com”.
In the aftermath of the announcement of the merger plan between BPM and Banco Popolare, creating the third largest Italian banking group, the Chinese company Lishijie had registered the two important domain names mentioned above in its own name.
WIPO's decision to reassign the two domains in favor of Banco BPM, issued in 2016, had been contested by Lishijie before the Chinese judicial authorities.
Banco BPM, with the assistance of Mr. Bonelli and Mr. Yunchuan Jing of Goatong Law, Beijing, successfully defended itself in all three levels of the Chinese judgment, obtaining the definitive assignment of the two domains in its favor.
