Collection of WIPO Domain Name Panel Decisions

The Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO Center) offers services for the resolution of commercial disputes between private parties involving intellectual property through procedures other than court litigation. Prominent among these disputes in recent years have been those arising out of bad-faith registration and use of Internet domain names corresponding to trademark rights. The administrative mechanism for resolving such disputes is embodied in WIPO's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). This very useful book reprints forty-five UDRP decisions rendered by WIPO Center panels between 1999 and 2003. These decisions represent the general trends as well as particular issues in the growing jurisprudence in the important area of Internet domain name rights, and their presentation here will provide practical guidance on the substantive issues and procedural mechanics of the UDRP. The decisions have been selected on the following criteria: principal substantive issues resolved by WIPO panels; typical procedural issues arising in UDRP cases; and diversity of domain names, parties and panelists. This approach offers practit