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March 06, 2012
A record number of brand owners filed cybersquatting cases with WIPO last year – and the IP organisation says that the introduction of new gTLDs will stretch trade mark owners’ resources still further
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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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November 24, 2011
A UDRP panellist who first adopted the so-called Octogen line of thinking on bad faith has insisted the doctrine will be revived despite receiving another blow
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October 20, 2011
Lego has lost its first UDRP case in nearly 300 disputes because legoworkshop.com was used in a non-commercial manner, despite claims that it generated click-through revenue
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July 04, 2011
WIPO has rejected calls for the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to be reviewed and urged Icann to focus on the urgent issue of cybersquatting
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April 08, 2011
The National Arbitration Forum is the second UDRP provider to report a surge in filings for 2010, but figures from the Asian provider show how the big two dominate
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March 15, 2011
WIPO’s trade marks committee is to consider whether to develop standards for determining secondary liability of internet intermediaries
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March 04, 2011
Apps are becoming a growing source of trade mark infringement, and complaints procedures aren’t yet up to scratch, according to brand owners
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May 27, 2010
A WIPO representative has reiterated concerns over the limiting scope of Icann’s draft post-delegation dispute mechanism and a draft report touching on the UDRP
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May 25, 2010
Two UDRP providers have experienced a record number of filings in the first four months of this year
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April 27, 2010
Three recent UDRP decisions saw complainants make futile attempts to win generic-based domains
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April 13, 2010
A UDRP decision this week found that a respondent’s prior knowledge of a company’s products does not necessarily mean a domain was registered in bad faith
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March 23, 2010
The number of UDRP cases filed in 2009 went down but the volume of domains contested increased, according to data published today by WIPO
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March 22, 2010
Switzerland’s .ch TLD is similar to its European neighbours such as Germany in that it is widely used in the country
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March 17, 2010
A UDRP panellist has argued that a conjunctive application of bad faith and registration is the only possible interpretation under the Policy, in a decision published this week
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March 10, 2010
A UDRP decision by WIPO panellist Richard Lyon has challenged the conventional view on bad faith registration of domain names
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March 03, 2010
Ville de Paris has lost another UDRP case, this time with a dissenting opinion, while one UDRP and one Nominet decision show why trade mark rights are not always enough
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February 03, 2010
UDRP decisions this week address the latest thinking on bad faith, using the UDRP to stop unlicensed pharmacies and whether Law Society is generic
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January 26, 2010
A series of recent UDRP cases have challenged the previous application of bad faith registration and use, but the “new paradigm” is far from reaching a consensus according to panellists and lawyers
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December 03, 2009
WIPO and the Czech Arbitration Court have rejected criticisms of their proposed expedited UDRP processes made by the Internet Commerce Association