Stories about: WIPO

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Will new top-level domains promote cybersquatting? 17 July, 2009 08:51

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is hosting two meetings this week -- one in New York City and the other in London -- to discuss the trademark and cybersecurity issues surrounding its plan to introduce hundreds of new top-level domains into the Internet.
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Red Hat founder speaks against Canada's copyright reform 10 June, 2008 10:28

Lulu Inc. CEO Bob Young is a major voice in the open source software industry, but according to him the entire community has been unjustifiably ignored throughout the Canadian government's copyright reform initiatives.
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What's in a name? Cybersquatting case has an answer 28 March, 2008 11:28

It's not often that a domain-name holder accused of cybersquatting actually prevails in a dispute with the party that filed the complaint. It's rarer still for that entity to then win a counterclaim of attempted reverse domain-name hijacking.
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Google looks to technology that recognizes text in images 07 January, 2008 08:58

Google may have plans to expand its search engine beyond static text.
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Microsoft sues cybersquatters in US, UK 15 March, 2007 08:07

Microsoft Wednesday said it filed lawsuits against cybersquatters in the U.S. and the U.K. to stop them from illegally profiting from the misuse of intellectual property and Internet domain names using online ads.
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Entertainment, Web companies flock to .mobi 24 May, 2006 11:15

The newly created .mobi Internet domain for mobile device sites is shaping up to be a pretty entertaining place, if you're 10 years old.
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WIPO urges tradename protection for new domains 06 June, 2005 09:54

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is suggesting some safeguards to stop cybersquatters from grabbing trademark-protected names under new generic Internet domain names.
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Japan helps drive surge in global patent applications 27 August, 2004 08:10

Latest figures for the number of applications for international patent filing by companies through the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) point to continued international recovery in research and development (R&D) spending across a broad range of technologies and industries. Applications from East Asia and Japan in particular showed strong growth, the organization said Tuesday.
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IP Australia automates with Web services 08 July, 2004 08:29

Australia’s intellectual property governing body, IP Australia, has embarked on a world-leading Web services project that will enable electronic patent lodgement to reduce the amount of manual processing required.
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Internet governance debate heats up 16 April, 2004 08:52

The debate on future governance of the internet is heating up, with a United Nations ICT taskforce convening a “global forum” late last month on the subject and those prominent in the IT and political worlds having plenty to say around the edges.
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SCO: GPL threatens $229B software market 20 November, 2003 08:05

The SCO Group's Chief Executive Officer, Darl McBride, enlisted the help of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to bolster his arguments against the open source GPL (GNU General Public License) and Linux during a keynote address at the CD Expo conference in Las Vegas.