The trial court upheld Google's claim in its entirety, in a decision which was upheld on appeal: Go Ogle could not use Google's trade name in its domain name 'google.ua'. Hostmaster was thus orderd to suspend the allocation of 'google.ua' to Go Ogle. However, last month the Higher Commercial Court partially upheld the cassation appeals filed by Go Ogle and Hostmaster.  That Court affirmed the decisions of the lower courts with regard to Go Ogle's use of Google's trade name, but remitted the action for retrial on the question of allocation of the domain name: this was because the lower courts had failed to establish whether the registration of the domain name itself infringed Google's rights and, if so, what was the appropriate remedy.

 Source: 'google.ua' domain name case sent back to lower court', article for World Trademark Review by Maria Fomichenko-Zakutskaya (Konnov & Sozanovsky, Kiev)