IP: ICANN Announces CPR Institute as New Dispute Resolution Provider

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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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>.