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Landmark Decision In .info Dispute
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation has upheld Spanish entrepreneur Christian Castresana's right to use InternetNews.info, rejecting a challenge from media giant INT Media Group. However, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO...
[May 17, 2002, 9:05]
Critics Pour Scorn On Ballmer Patent 'FUD'
News Someday, for all countries that are entering the WTO (World Trade Organisation), somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property," Ballmer reportedly said. The intellectual property risks associated with...
[November 18, 2004, 16:55]
IBM Co-founds Green Patent Pool
News Kappos said part of the motivation for the creation of the patents-sharing organisation is the difficulty in establishing intellectual-property licensing agreements across industries. In the IT industry, cross-licensing agreements are commonplace...
[January 14, 2008, 11:13]
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]
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]
Treaty Casts Shadow On Public Domain
News At a meeting in Geneva, the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights agreed to prepare a draft of the treaty by 1 April, 2004. The treaty -- which was proposed by the Bush administration and is...
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
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]
ICANN Heads For 'substantive' Meeting
News Twomey said another item that will be discussed is a report from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) involving intellectual property rights when country names such as Mexico or Canada are used in domain names.
[October 28, 2003, 9:35]
Trade Agreement Has Domain Name Dispute Language
News He served on an advisory panel of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, which developed the report that Icann used to help develop its UDRP. The draft agreement is divided into nine areas that are being negotiated such as market access...
[July 9, 2001, 12:15]
New Global Treaty Could Pose Threat To The Net
News Four years ago, nations including the United States signed onto a World Intellectual Property Organisation pact to protect copyright in the digital age. In a letter to Hague convention delegates sent last week, the American Library Association...
[June 22, 2001, 15:43]
Anger Over Call To Fine Unlicensed Software Users
News The organisation has made a submission to the independent Gowers review on intellectual property legislation, which is due to report in the autumn. The BSA wants civil courts in intellectual property cases to have an extra power to award punitive...
[August 31, 2006, 17:00]
IT Giants Fight Wireless Patent
News As part of our business we create high quality intellectual property, and we are prepared to defend it," said Dr Geoff Garrett, chief executive of CSIRO. Interestingly, the basic patent stayed with CSIRO and is now negotiating with a number of...
[May 18, 2005, 16:35]
UK Tech Week: Roche Says Size Doesn't Matter In Digital Age
News We will only talk about those companies who are in rich in intellectual property -- the challenege for the UK both for business and for government is to respond to those challenges, and to convert those challenges into an opportunity".
[October 8, 1998, 12:21]
Microsoft's Bold March Towards Open Source
Leader We know that its software contains much intellectual property, some of it the company's own, some of it licensed or otherwise bought from others. Nobody suspects Microsoft of using intellectual property without permission.
[January 31, 2007, 16:30]
SCO Bans Press From Open Systems Briefing
News The SCO Group's Australian managing director has played down a move to bar media outlets from his presentation to the Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) as pressure intensifies over the vendor's decision to litigate over...
[May 29, 2003, 9:09]
Cybersquatting OK For 'freedom Of Speech' Sites
News Registering a domain name similar to that of another organisation and then using the URL to protest against its namesake's products or services is acceptable, according to a decision made by an external panel appointed by the World Intellectual...
[December 6, 2007, 9:46]
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. A consultation on the draft code, Best Practices for the Prevention...
[March 3, 2001, 6:50]
Lloyd's To Provide Open Source IP Indemnity
News Lloyd's of London, the oldest insurance organisation in the world, is to underwrite open source software against claims of intellectual-property (IP) infringement. The insurance will be available through brokers to companies and organisations who...
[August 15, 2005, 13:50]
Girl In Harry Potter Web Address Battle
News Last month the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organisation ruled Time Warner as the sole owner of more than 100 Potter-related Web addresses. Chan has been told that domain names including the words "Harry Potter" are the intellectual...
[January 22, 2001, 13:51]
US Report: Microsoft Wizards To Thwart Pirates...
News In October, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which implements the World Intellectual Property Organisation Copyright Treaty for protecting intellectual property issues on an international basis, and the No Electronic Theft Act...
[December 14, 1998, 10:33]
