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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...
[28 Mar 2008]
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]
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...
[23 Feb 2000]
News The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has passed a treaty that will simplify and reduce the costs of the patenting procedure. WIPO director general Dr Kamil Idris welcomed the adoption of the PLT and explained that once it entered...
[05 Jun 2000]
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]
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]
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has signed a major contract with a consortium of IT vendors to supply a database system to handle worldwide patent applications. The WIPO claims IMPACT is the largest single IT project ever...
[12 Jan 2000]
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]
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) will this week intercede for the first time in a case of domain name 'cybersquatting'. WIPO hopes the arbitration service will boost consumer confidence.
[06 Dec 1999]
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]
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) ruled that businessman Andrew Hetherington had no claims over the domain, which it said he registered in 'bad faith'. Hetherington said he registered the domain for a planned clothing venture to...
[08 Apr 2002]
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]
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has given its official stamp of approval to a Web site which claims to put an end to Internet domain name disputes. A spokesman for the WIPO said it has submitted a document of endorsement to the...
[23 Nov 1998]
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has confirmed its plans to cut patent registration costs. A representative of the WIPO - a division of the United Nations that controls the global patent service and other property rights issues...
[16 Sep 1998]
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]
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]
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) will publish a report tonight aimed at soothing the troubled waters of Web domain naming. WIPO believes disputes will occur between Network Solutions and commercial domain name registrars, as they...
[30 Apr 1999]
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]
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]
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. Again Wipo ordered Unasi return the domain to its rightful owner.
[19 Sep 2005]
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