MARQUES has submitted a response to the initial report on the review of the UDRP, which was conducted by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center and the Internet Commerce Association.

The initial report was published in May this year and reported on the Class 46 blog here.

The MARQUES response was prepared by members of the Cyberspace Team. Several MARQUES members were also among the group of experts who examined the UDRP to identify improvements.

In its submission, MARQUES welcomes the initial report, saying: “The UDRP is the only cost-effective, proven mechanism for tackling cross-border trade mark infringement in the domain name system. MARQUES hopes that the ICANN community will take the Final Report by WIPO as the framework for review.”

MARQUES also shared some short comments on points of most importance to its membership. These covered issues including the scope of the UDRP, dissenting panellists, loser-pays, an appeals process with three-person panels, and standardised requirements and performance reviews for all panellists.

MARQUES plans to submit a further response to ICANN when the final report is submitted. This is expected to be later this year.

You can read the MARQUES submission on the Position Papers page of the MARQUES website.