WIPO celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) with a conference at its headquarters last week.
At a meeting in Geneva on October 21, WIPO said the solution to bad-faith registration of domain names has been used by brand owners worldwide in more than 45,000 cases since its inception in 1999.
WIPO's director general, Francis Gurry, described the UDRP as a "durable international solution that has addressed a real problem effectively and has helped build trust in the internet for global commercial transactions".
The conference, which was attended by more than 250 brand owners and approximately 140 WIPO UDRP panellists as well as trademark practitioners and counsel, heard about the inner workings of the panel-decision making process and how the UDRP has helped develop legal consensus.
Additionally, experts also discussed proposed changes to the UDRP, which is scheduled to undergo a formal review by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2020.
Source： Wipr
