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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
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. [20 Feb 2001]
WIPO plans to wipe out cybersquatters
News A WIPO report published yesterday has proposed that top-level internet domain names (TLDs) containing the names of countries, geographical areas, ethnic groups and even pharmaceutical substances should be protected from unauthorised use. [04 Sep 2001]
What's in a name? ICANN and the Net name game
Comment NetBenefit's Robinson believes the WIPO dispute resolution could work for new domain name extensions created in the future, but warns that the organisation may have missed the boat on existing top level domains like .com and .net. [06 Sep 1999]
Domain name bonanza just a flash in the pan
News Francis Gurry, assistant director general of WIPO, warned that the creation of 20 new domains could have a devastating effect on intellectual property. As long as they are top level domains we will handle any domain name disputes through WIPO," he... [13 Mar 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]
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]
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]
Lawmakers must 'think global' for IPR solutions
News European legislators could work at the international level with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the report recommends. Malcolm Harbour MEP, chairman of the Conservative Technology Forum, concurred that global solutions are what... [24 Jan 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]
Brussels and Geneva deciding what things are called - even on the web?
Comment At the beginning of the week WIPO told us it would be widening its dispute procedure to include the names of international organisations and the non-trademark names of drugs such as sildenafenil (the generic term for Viagra). [06 Sep 2001]
Web 'copycats' ripping off small businesses
News Michael Cover, a partner and intellectual property expert at law firm Faegre Benson Hobson Audley who also sits on WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) dispute panels, told silicon.com: "If you have this kind of problem in the UK, it is... [09 Mar 2004]
Alcoholics Anonymous loses web battle
News The site hosts chat rooms and message boards for discussion of AA-related issues - but the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) decided AA had failed to prove the site was being run in bad faith. [10 Jan 2002]
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]
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