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WIPO promises quick-fix patent procedure

News The patent law treaty (PLT) was finalised last week at the end of a WIPO diplomatic conference in Geneva and signed by 43 countries, including the United Kingdom. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has passed a treaty that will...

[05 Jun 2000]

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

[28 Mar 2008]

US government throws its weight behind WIPO copyright standards

News The US government has given its to backing two copyright standards developed by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) contain a general update of...

[15 Sep 1999]

Nine point ecommerce agenda mapped out at WIPO summit

News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has detailed a nine point 'Digital Agenda' following its Geneva summit last week. According to Dr Kamil Idris, director general of WIPO, the agenda maps out the best course for moving commerce...

[20 Sep 1999]

No end in sight for cybersquatting disputes

No end in sight for cybersquatting disputes

News Following this week's meeting in Geneva, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has published a best practice paper designed to encourage the administrators of country-level domains (ccTLDs) like dot-co-dot-uk and dot-org-dot-uk to...

[23 Feb 2001]

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

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

News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is presiding over the meeting in Geneva. 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...

[20 Feb 2001]

Geneva summit to discuss online intellectual property

News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is hosting a 500-strong, two-day summit, in the hope of building an industry consensus boosting confidence in electronic commerce. Francis Gurry, assistant director general at WIPO, said the two...

[14 Sep 1999]

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...

Tags: netcasting, webcasting, wipo, copyright

[06 Sep 2006]

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]

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