[Random-bits] WIPO Committee Reaches Agreement On Protection of Trademarks on Internet

[James Love]

Thanks to J.O. for this pointer.  I could not find anything about this
on the WIPO web page. 

jamie


http://pubs.bna.com/ip/BNA/eip.nsf/id/a0a3m0h5y0_

WIPO Committee Reaches Agreement
On Protection of Trademarks on Internet


GENEVA--Experts from more than 80 member countries of the World
Intellectual Property Organization have reached an agreement in
principle on a draft proposal which would set out international
guidelines on the protection of trademarks and other distinctive signs
on the Internet. The agreement was reached at a Sept. 11-15 meeting of
WIPO's Standing Committee on Trademarks. WIPO officials attending the
meeting said that consensus was reached on all substantive provisions of
the text and that the proposal could be finalized at the next SCT
meeting in March 2001.

The SCT is then expected to decide whether to send the text to WIPO's
annual governing body meeting in September 2001 for formal approval from
all of the organization's 171 member countries. A decision must also be
taken on whether to incorporate the proposal into WIPO's 1994 Trademark
Law Treaty, thus giving the text more legal weight.

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