wipo complaints

Wipo wipes web of record number of 'cybersquatters'

News The World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo), a UN agency based in Geneva, received 2,156 complaints alleging "abusive registration of trademarks on the internet" last year, up 18 per cent from 2006 and 48 per cent more than the filings...

Tags: un, wipo, trademark, domain names

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[28 Mar 2008]

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]

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]