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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... [06 Sep 2006]
easyMobile wins easiermobile.com domain
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]
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]
The Bloor Perspective: Concorde and conferencing, that IPR retreat and Xbox lessons
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]
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]
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]
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]
Nine point ecommerce agenda mapped out at WIPO summit
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]
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]
Patents to cost less
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]
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