Does the owner of the SiteUp trademark have the right to demand the renaming of Site-Up?

Question

Copyright

In 2015, I decided to create a web studio. After thinking a little about the name, I decided that it would be Site-Up, by analogy with a startup. Trademark not registered. Today comes a claim from the SiteUp web studio about the violation of the exclusive rights of the Copyright Holder. Indeed, their trademark is registered, but in 2016 (later than I bought my domain), in addition, there is no hyphen in their name. Given these facts, is the claim adequate? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Russian case law. There have already been similar litigations and the decision was made in favor of the plaintiff (There was even an article with a collection of these cases on Habré). So if SiteUp sues, it will most likely win.

Answer 2

Interesting, how did it end? How did they solve this problem? :)