IP: ICANN Announces CPR Institute as New Dispute Resolution Provider

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> 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>.