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News The WIPO proposals require evidence of an identical or similar trademark, but we think people have wider rights to their name. WIPO admits the rights of non-trademark holders need to be addressed and according to Gurry, the organisation is already...
[23 Feb 2001]
Comment It is, therefore, bemusing that the US Director of International Relations for the US Patent and Trademark Office apparently opposed such a meeting, claiming that such a meeting would run against the mission of WIPO to promote intellectual...
[10 Nov 2003]
News Francis Gurry, Wipo's deputy director general, said: "These increases confirm that 'cybersquatting' remains a significant issue for rights holders. The World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo), a UN agency based in Geneva, received 2,156...
[28 Mar 2008]
News However a WIPO panel disagreed, saying the site was registered two years before Virgin decided to launch its v.mail service, and that Virgin has no registered trademark covering Virginmail. The decision was made by the UN-funded World Intellectual...
[02 Nov 2001]
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]
News According to Dr Kamil Idris, director general of WIPO, the agenda maps out the best course for moving commerce onto the Internet, whilst safeguarding intellectual property rights. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has detailed a...
[20 Sep 1999]
News The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) contain a general update of the legal principles underpinning international protection of copyright and the rights of performers and phonogram producers on the...
[15 Sep 1999]
News A representative of the WIPO - a division of the United Nations that controls the global patent service and other property rights issues - explained that patent costs have been cut because the existing charge structure has been making a surplus.
[16 Sep 1998]
News Jule Sigall, the US Copyright Office official who led the roundtable, said the most recent language, released earlier this summer, is "very much a step towards something else" and that next week's meetings of Wipo's Standing Committee on Copyright...
[06 Sep 2006]
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]
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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