wipo arbitration

WIPO sets up official channel for domain name disputes

News WIPO hopes the arbitration service will boost consumer confidence. Full details of the first case to be put before the arbitration panel have not been released, but the disputed domain is managed by Australian registrar, Melbourne IT.

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[06 Dec 1999]

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...

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[23 Feb 2000]

German net industry wants right to settle its own disputes

News UN body WIPO believes arbitration schemes, which have already proven successful in other European countries, such as the UK, are becoming necessary as more top level domain name owners clash across national boundaries.

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[06 Mar 2001]

'Stamp out cybersquatting': summit gets off on wrong foot

News Top of the agenda for the day is the promotion on a global basis of UDRP (uniform dispute resolution policy), the domain name arbitration procedure WIPO developed to deal with cybersquatters on top-level domains such as dot-com and dot-org.

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[20 Feb 2001]

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...

Tags: squatting, unisa, cyber, security

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[19 Sep 2005]

What's in a name? ICANN and the Net name game

Comment ICANN wants to create a third-party arbitration process where companies and individuals can challenge one another for the right to hold certain Web addresses without having to drag each other through the courts.

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[06 Sep 1999]

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...

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[05 Jul 2002]

ASPs receive service guidelines

News The guidelines will provide business customers and ASPs with clarification and arbitration in international conflicts before they end up as lawsuits, as well as offering guidelines on service level agreements.

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[23 May 2001]

Robbie Williams triumphs in cyber squatting row

News An arbitration panel decided the site had been bought and used in bad faith as Taylor attempted to play his part in fuelling a feud between Williams and the Gallagher brothers who front Oasis. The UN World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO...

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[19 Aug 2002]