All, Looks like NZ is having some problems with the WIPO Weenies! See:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nzherald99/story.cfm?theStoryID=9035 Exerpts: In February an ICANN meeting in Singapore asked constituency groups to go away and develop rules and voting structures. An establishment meeting in Wellington in April decided the intellectual property constituency should be broadly based. "The next meeting in New York chucked all that out and formed a very closed group dominated by North American trademark lawyers," said Mr Dengate Thrush. "It's a major concern if intellectual property issues on the Internet were to mean US trademark law, which treats trademarks as territory. We don't regard a trademark as territory but as a right which is infringed when deception occurs." Also.... WIPO was asked to report on how to resolve disputes when someone registers a domain name which is close to an existing trademark - a practice sometimes called "cyber-squatting". "What was tabled in Berlin [at last month's ICANN meeting] presupposes trademark holders have a superior right, which we disagree with," Mr Dengate Thrush said. The proposed remedies would allow trademark holders to require registrars to close down a site until a dispute is resolved. Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
