News And Analysis

• Global Awards 2013: shortlists

  February 25, 2013

  Managing IP’s Global Awards Dinner recognising outstanding work in IP in the past year takes place in London on April 17. Winners will be selected from the following shortlists

• AIPLA President’s blog: FICPI, ACPC and ABA meetings

  January 23, 2013

  AIPLA President Jeff Lewis reflects on the holiday season and outlines his busy travel schedule over the next month

• MIP Handbook: Leading IP firms in Americas analysed

  June 01, 2012

  The Americas sections of the 2012 MIP Handbook are now available on miphandbook.com, with Europe and Asia due in subsequent weeks

• Managing IP Global Awards 2012 – shortlists revealed

  January 27, 2012

  Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced

• Global awards 2011 – full list of winners

  April 07, 2011

  Managing IP presented more than 60 awards to the leading firms in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America at the annual global awards dinner in London last night. Here are the winners:

• Interview: Icann’s new compliance manager

  March 17, 2011

  Carlos Alvarez, one of two new senior hires to Icann’s compliance team, spoke to Managing IP about his goals for his new job

• Dot-xxx decision delayed

  December 13, 2010

  The ICM Registry is still waiting for approval from the Icann Board for the .xxx domain, but the indications are that it will be coming soon

• Full interview: Peter Dengate Thrush

  December 13, 2010

  Fionn O’Raghallaigh spoke to Icann Board chairman Peter Dengate Thrush at the end of the meeting in Cartagena about new gTLDs, trade mark protection, the Olympics and a lot more

• Icann chair clarifies rights protection resolution

  December 11, 2010

  The Icann Board has effectively resolved that trade mark protections mechanisms for new gTLDs are finalised but their wording could still be "substantially improved", according to Icann's chair

• Deadlock over privacy services at Icann

  December 09, 2010

  The IP community’s call for a contract requiring registrars to reveal details about users of privacy services who infringe IP rights is being resisted by registrars who believe it would be burdensome

• Brands can block .xxx domains

  December 09, 2010

  The .xxx registry rights protection mechanisms will allow brand owners to pay a one-off fee for their mark in the second level and have it switched off

• Brand concerns could delay gTLD approval

  December 08, 2010

  The Governmental Advisory Committee has told Icann’s Board that brand protections in new gTLDs “are not there yet”, which makes it unlikely the Board can approve the full Applicant Guidebook this Friday

• Controversy over Icann’s economic study

  December 06, 2010

  Icann has released the latest phase of economic reports analysing the financial impact on the internet community of launching new gTLDs.

• Internet community gears up for Colombia

  December 02, 2010

  The Icann Board will most likely vote to approve the new gTLD process at its meeting in Colombia

• Dot-co landrush period extended

  July 14, 2010

  Interest in the relaunched .co top-level domain has “surpassed expectations”, and the landrush period is to be extended to July 16, the registry operator says