wipo intellectual property
WIPO evicts cybersquatters
News The domain name arbitration service set up by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has received 89 complaints since its launch two months ago. Francis Gurry, WIPO assistant director general, said in a statement: "The rate of increase... [23 Feb 2000]
WIPO to set up worldwide patent database
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has signed a major contract with a consortium of IT vendors to supply a database system to handle worldwide patent applications. The WIPO claims IMPACT is the largest single IT project ever... [12 Jan 2000]
WIPO sets up official channel for domain name disputes
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) will this week intercede for the first time in a case of domain name 'cybersquatting'. WIPO now hopes to put a stop to drawn-out legal battles around dot-com, dot-org and dot-net addresses by... [06 Dec 1999]
WIPO cracks down on cybersquatters
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has taken steps towards an outright ban on cybersquatting in a report released late Friday night. The WIPO is a UN organisation which acts as an international Internet watchdog. [04 May 1999]
Red card for Liverpool FC cyber squatter
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) ruled that businessman Andrew Hetherington had no claims over the domain, which it said he registered in 'bad faith'. Hetherington said he registered the domain for a planned clothing venture to... [08 Apr 2002]
Domain name database gets seal of approval
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has given its official stamp of approval to a Web site which claims to put an end to Internet domain name disputes. A spokesman for the WIPO said it has submitted a document of endorsement to the... [23 Nov 1998]
easyMobile wins easiermobile.com domain
News According to a complaint filed with Wipo (World Intellectual Property Organisation), easyGroup claims the URL "is confusingly similar to its trademark easyMobile phonetically, visually and conceptually" and the website was a direct attempt by... [14 Jul 2005]
Typo-squatters target security industry
News That case went before the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) for arbitration and Wipo ordered Unasi to return the domain which it believed had been registered in bad faith. That ruling came just two months after Wipo had been forced to... [19 Sep 2005]
MikeRoweSoft teen flogs legal documents on eBay
News I am selling the WIPO book with the 25-page letter I received from Microsoft's lawyers on 14 January, 2004. Rowe refused, and the conflict wound up before WIPO, which arbitrates in domain name disputes. [03 Feb 2004]
Van Morrison wins domain name dispute
News The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organistion) arbitration panel ruled that Van Morrison held common law trademark rights over the domain as "Van Morrison" was not a common name and had only become internationally recognisable through the... [05 Jul 2002]
ASP users get international watchdog
News The organisation will be a joint effort between the ASP industry consortium (Aspic) - an international advocacy group of almost 500 technology companies - and the World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo). [08 May 2000]
Brussels and Geneva deciding what things are called - even on the web?
Comment So far efforts to prevent such action have focussed solely on trademark holders, but moves this week by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the European Commission could herald a new era in domain name battles. [06 Sep 2001]
Kevin Spacey loses kevinspacey.com
News The decision is unusual in that most recent cases of this kind - especially those administered by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) - have gone the way of the 'brand' owner. But Burgar's supporters say he is quite right to defend... [28 Nov 2001]
Virgin loses battle with pornographer
News The decision was made by the UN-funded World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) under a tried and tested dispute resolution procedure. However a WIPO panel disagreed, saying the site was registered two years before Virgin decided to launch... [02 Nov 2001]
Copyright tussle looming over online video?
News The World Intellectual Property Organization, or Wipo, a specialised arm of the UN, gave the go-ahead in 2003 to begin drafting the treaty but a final version is still pending. Jule Sigall, the US Copyright Office official who led the roundtable... [06 Sep 2006]
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