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Record year for UDRP cases at WIPO
Trade mark owners filed 5,128 cases with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in 2021, a 22% increase on the previous year.
This means that since it started, the WIPO service has handled almost 56,000 cases covering over 100,000 domain names (see WIPO ADR announcement of 25 January).
WIPO attributes the growth to “the greater number of people spending more time online, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, with trademark owners reinforcing their online presence to offer authentic content and trusted sales to Internet users”.
The cases filed in 2021 came from parties in 132 countries: the US was top, with 1,760, followed by France (938), the UK (450), Switzerland (326) and Germany (251).
ccTLD expansion
In addition to handling disputes for generic TLDs, the WIPO Center now provides dispute resolution services for over 80 country-code TLDs.
Recent ccTLD additions include .bh (Bahrain), .sa (Saudi Arabia) and .sn (Senegal).
The Center recently received the 100th UDRP case for the .cn and .中国 (China) ccTLD. The case concerns five Tencent-related domain names.
Chart reproduced from WIPO newsletter
Posted by: Blog Administrator @ 09.38Tags: WIPO, UDRP, domain name, ccTLD, .cn,
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