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  • Australian to head WIPO

    Australian Francis Gurry has been nominated as the next director general of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

  • World Intellectual Property Organisation stumped

    At its two-day forum in Geneva, the World Intellectual Property Organisation has made little headway in offering solutions to difficult questions plaguing online commerce

  • Storm brewing over new domain names

    The World Intellectual Property Organisation is preparing itself for a possible flood of complaints over the new .biz and .info domain names.

  • Cybersquatting goes to court

    Cybersquatters received a warning signal this week when the first international dispute settlement mechanism aimed at curbing the abuse of trademarks on the Internet was launched. The first dispute under the new Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy applicable to the top-level domains (.com, .net and .org) was filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center on December 2, 1999, a day after the new rules took effect.

  • ICANN swamped by Net name chaos

    The system for registering domains is in danger of descending into chaos as independent registrars undermine ICANN's grip on the current domain name system.

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