Intellectual Property Law

WIPO: DNS Developments Feed Growing Cybersquatting Concerns

By Marty Schwimmer

WIPO: DNS Developments Feed Growing Cybersquatting Concerns:

Last year, a record 2,156 complaints alleging cybersquatting - or the abusive registration of trademarks on the Internet - were filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization?s (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center (Center), representing an 18% increase over 2006 and a 48% increase over 2005 in the number of generic and country code Top Level Domain (gTLDs and ccTLDs) disputes.

Full post as published by Trademark Blog on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).