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Domain Name 'fire Sale' Could Break WIPO Rules
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which runs the arbitration process for top level domain names, is due to publish a positioning paper next week on domains that include geographical names.
[July 27, 2001, 11:54]
Nominet Defies WIPO Over Domain Disputes
News Nominet, the registry for UK Internet names, is considering whether to defy the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on methods for settle disputes over domain names. The UK registry claims that WIPO's methods are not far reaching enough...
[March 3, 2001, 6:50]
Webcasting 'excluded From WIPO Broadcasting Treaty'
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Friday welcomed the news that webcasting will no longer be included in the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) broadcasting treaty. The Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations...
[May 8, 2006, 17:10]
NTT DoCoMo Accused Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
News Japan's NTT DoCoMo was accused by a panel convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of attempting to reverse-hijack the imode.biz domain name after it lost its case to win the name from US telecoms giant AT&T.
[July 9, 2002, 15:50]
Storm Brewing Over New Domain Names
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is gearing up to cope with a possible flood of disputes resulting from disgruntled individuals failing to register their trademark as a new generic top level domain name (gTLD).
[August 10, 2001, 16:00]
Port Of Helsinki Loses Domain Name Decision
News The decision, reached this week by the World Intellectual Property Organisation's (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre, goes against the grain of some of WIPO's earlier precedents, such as awarding Barcelona.com to the City of Barcelona.
[February 28, 2001, 8:19]
PricewaterhouseCoopers Loses Pwc.com Domain Fight
News In a ruling issued last week, WIPO -- the World Intellectual Property Organisation -- ruled that the city accountancy firm had failed to prove that Ultimate Search should be made to give up the domain.
[May 27, 2002, 18:00]
Scotsman Fights Off Multinational's Domain Name Claim
News Mr Remocker, from Glasgow, was judged by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to have registered the domain name in good faith and will now be allowed to sell the domain to the highest bidder.
[March 2, 2001, 14:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One of the most exciting events has been a meeting in Geneva of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) - and with a name like the Inter-Sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO, it's hard to see why The Sun...
[April 15, 2005, 19:30]
Madonna Wants 'her' Name Back
News In her complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo), Madonna accuses Parisi of "holding the domain name hostage". Wipo's arbitration and mediation centre, which last week forced a group of cybersquatters to give up 40 Internet...
[August 21, 2000, 10:06]
Alcoholics Anonymous Not Awarded .org Site
News Saying the site displayed an adequate warning "which goes much further than an ordinary disclaimer," the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center said in a recently released decision that it is allowing...
[January 11, 2002, 11:27]
Landmark Decision In .info Dispute
News That forced the media giant to challenge Castresana's right to use the name before WIPO's commercial arbitration body. However, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has rejected the challenge on all three grounds and said that its...
[May 17, 2002, 9:05]
Treaty Casts Shadow On Public Domain
News A second meeting is scheduled for June, followed by an expected diplomatic conference during which nations that are members of WIPO -- a UN agency -- could sign the final treaty. Broadcasters see this as a way to extend rights to noncopyrighted...
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
Bestselling Authors Win Back Domain Names
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has ruled that the domain names rightfully belong to the authors, and has ordered Hogarth to hand them over. Although the authors hadn't registered the domain name, there is a common law trademark...
[April 5, 2001, 8:45]
Cybersquatting Cases Branded As 'biased'
News But the study, carried out by Professor Michael Geist with the help of five students at Ottawa University, found that complainants win 82.2 percent of the time when they take their grievance to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
[August 21, 2001, 17:15]
Secret Of Ginger To Be Revealed?
News A patent application filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation's (WIPO) international bureau on December 14, 2000, has fueled speculation that Ginger is a motorised, scooter-like device.
[November 30, 2001, 9:12]
MikeRoweSoft Bids Fail To Make The Grade
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.
[February 3, 2004, 7:30]
The Low-down On Domain Name Disputes
News There are further details on the WIPO Web site. The study, carried out by Professor Michael Geist with the help of five students at Ottawa University, found that complainants win 82.2 percent of the time when they take their grievance to WIPO.
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Law Enforcement On A Borderless Web
News The United States used the WIPO agreement to lay the groundwork for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the law US prosecutors used to charge Russia-based ElcomSoft. The United States and 34 other countries signed the WIPO treaty, which went into...
[June 2, 2002, 7:31]
'Three Strikes And You're Out' For Domain Name Hijackers
News Unlike the UDRP system, which is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and is an administrative procedure, Nominet intends to adopt a mediation model. Among the critics is Christopher Gibson, former head of the e...
[March 8, 2001, 11:47]
