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What’s in a number? A discussion of two decisions concerning rights in telephone numbers

19 November 2020

By Tom Gilbert

Most of us don’t think about our telephone numbers very often but these strings of digits can be incredibly important.

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Domain name disputes: Will the President play his trump card again?

19 July 2018

By Kai Nash

The Trump Organisation owns a lot of domain names – around 3,000, for everything from <TrumpOnTheRocks.com> to <TrumpRussia.com>. Unfortunately for the President, this impressive portfolio doesn’t include <TrumpHotels.org>.

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WIPO program encourages research into neglected diseases

5 May 2014

By Kathryn Purcell-Hennessy

A novel WIPO program brings IP owners and researchers together to facilitate scientific research into neglected diseases, with the aim of bringing royalty-free treatments to least developed countries. 50 voluntary collaboration agreements have been signed in the 2 years of operation.

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Re-thinking the role of IP: a lecture by Dr Francis Gurry

29 August 2013

By Jessica Bounds

The world’s wealth is increasingly becoming centred on intellectual capital, according to Dr Francis Gurry at his presentation at Melbourne University on Thursday 22 August 2013. Dr Gurry is the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), and the highest-ranking Australian official in a United Nations agency. The organisers of the fifth annual Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property were privileged to have the Lecture’s namesake present on “Re-thinking the role of IP”, exploring the major economic, social and political developments affecting intellectual property.

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Welcome to <.yellowpages>!

6 August 2013

By Samantha McHugh

You might have seen some articles recently about developments in the general top-level domain (gTLD) space (we previously posted about ICANN’s new gTLD program here and here). Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Panel handed down its decision in response to a Legal Rights Objection, which will allow Telstra Corporation Limited (Telstra) to operate the gTLD . We acted for Telstra.

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