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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 cracks down on cybersquatters

News The WIPO is a UN organisation which acts as an international Internet watchdog. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has taken steps towards an outright ban on cybersquatting in a report released late Friday night.

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[04 May 1999]

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.

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[04 Sep 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...

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[02 Nov 2001]

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

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[06 Sep 2006]

German net industry wants right to settle its own disputes

News UN body WIPO believes arbitration schemes, which have already proven successful in other European countries, such as the UK, are becoming necessary as more top level domain name owners clash across national boundaries.

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[06 Mar 2001]

Robbie Williams triumphs in cyber squatting row

News The UN World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) said Taylor had no legitimate claim to the domain and said his actions appeared to be aimed solely at provoking Williams. Pop star Robbie Williams has won a custody battle for the...

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[19 Aug 2002]