IPTango: WTR

Friday, 17 September 2010

Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) - survey

Patricia Covarrubia September 17, 2010 No comments:

Some time ago I received an invitation to participate in a survey run by the World Trademark Review (WTR)regarding the issue of ‘new generic top-level domains’. This ‘new’ domain offers to run any series of characters after the final (.)dot.

The WTR gives us an example of how this may work; “Japanese camera maker Canon has already announced it will apply to run '.canon', reserving the right to fold its entire web presence under its house brand and, crucially, to control that space. Brands which run a new '.brand' or industry keyword registry (eg, '.cameras') will be able to permit or bar any entity from registering a domain under that space and can even capitalise on the space by selling second-level domains.”

I invite you today to participate in this opportunity. You may put some punctuation (a final dot perhaps) to this programme – is it a positive or negative development?
Do not worry, is anonymous!

You can have your say here.

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

World Trademark Review (WTR) expands

Patricia Covarrubia April 14, 2010 No comments:

It is with pleasure that I announce the launch of a new IP blog by the WTR.
However, do not expect the usual blog addressing legal updates and case reports because you are going to be disappointed. As you know, the majority of IP blogs are written by practitioners and/or academics (some wannabes also), but this blog offers info written by proper IP journalist.

Adam Smith, reporter for the WTR explains: "For eight years WTR has covered the most important trademark stories of the day, and has broken some of the most significant trademark stories of recent times, from exclusive analysis of the ECJ's recent decision in the Google keywords case to news of how the top 100 globally protected trademark list has resurfaced on the domain name agenda. WTR has the independence and objectivity to supply readers with information they cannot find anywhere else: we can interview the parties involved in a dispute, press trademark offices for their positions and statistics, and gather insightful opinions through speaking with leading brand owners. Assimilating this means that our specialist trademark journalists can strike at the commercial heart of every development in trademarks. WTR's blog will therefore complement lawyers' blogs and present new dimensions to industry debates, as well as highlighting and linking to other industry content."

If you would like to receive the free blog, click here.

To read the blog, click here.

Some IPTango moves

* Listed as one of the "Best blogs on Intellectual and Industrial Property Law". The University of Alicante Intellectual Property & Information Technology Project (UAIPIT).

* One of the only two Latin American blog listed in the "Top 100 Intellectual Property Blogs". Feedspot, as of May 2021.

* Listed as one of the "Top 15 Blogs For An Intellectual Property (IP) Enthusiasts". Buzzfeed.com, January 2017.

* Listed as one of the "World's Best IP Blogs". BananaIP.com, December 2015.

* IPTango founder Professor Jeremy Phillips was listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

* Listed as one of the "Influential intellectual property blawgs". A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, Peter Groves, 2011.

* Listed as one of the "Communities of Blawgers". Los blogs jurídicos y la web 2.0. para la difusión y la enseñanza del derecho, Gonzalo Ramírez Cleves, 2010.