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Announcement
15 May 2000
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ICANN Announces CPR
Institute as New Dispute Resolution Provider
(May 15, 2000 - Marina del Rey, California,
USA) -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) announced today that the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution
has been designated an approved provider under their Uniform
Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for domain name disputes. CPR
will begin accepting complaints on Monday, 22 May 2000. For the
first two months of operation it will commence a maximum of twenty
proceedings per month.
CPR, a widely respected alliance of 500 general counsel of global
corporations and partners of major law firms, is the fourth dispute
resolution provider to be designated by ICANN to handle domain
disputes, joining the National Arbitration Forum, the Disputes.org/eResolution
Consortium, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The members of the CPR Domain Name Disputes Panel are listed
at the CPR website, see http://www.cpradr.org.
The UDRP was adopted in August 1999 and placed into effect by
all competitive registrars in .com, .org and .net during December
1999 - January 2000. It establishes a streamlined, economical
process administered by neutral arbitration companies to provide
a quick and cheap alternative to litigation. The procedure applies
to cases that meet all three of the following criteria:
- The domain name must be identical or confusingly
similar to a name in which the complaining party has trademark
rights (either through a registered trademark or a common-law
trademark).
- The domain name holder must have no legitimate
right or interest in the name.
- The domain name must have been registered
and used in bad faith.
In its first few months of operation, the
UDRP has proven to be a very popular means of quickly resolving
trademark/domain name disputes. To date, 691 proceedings have
been commenced under the policy involving 1022 domain names.
Of those proceedings, 348 have already been resolved.
For additional information on UDRP, see
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm.
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