FW: WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Update

["Laina Raveendran Greene" <laina@getit.org>]

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From: Arbiter Mail [mailto:arbiter.mail@wipo.int] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:02 PM
To: arbiter-en@lists.wipo.int
Subject: WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Update



Madam, 
Sir,

With this e-mail I have pleasure in providing you a brief update on the
activities of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO).

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I.  June 2004:  WIPO Workshops for Mediators in Intellectual Property
Disputes

The caseload of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center includes a growing
number of intellectual property mediations.

In addition to administering mediation procedures under the WIPO Mediation
Rules, the Center each year organizes Workshops for Mediators in
Intellectual Property Disputes.  The next Workshops will be held on
Thursday, June 24 and Friday, June 25, and again on Monday, June 28 and
Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at the headquarters of WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland.


The Workshops, which are held in English, are designed for lawyers, business
executives, patent and trademark specialists and others who wish to become
familiar with the mediation process and receive training as mediators.
Conducted by Professor Robert H. Mnookin of Harvard Law School and Professor
Gary J. Friedman of the Center for Mediation in Law of Mill Valley,
California, the Workshops are based on intellectual property mediation
exercises.

Information on the Workshops and a registration form are available on the
Center's website at
http://arbiter.wipo.int/events/workshops/2004/mediation/index.html

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II.  April 2005:  WIPO Conference on Dispute Resolution in International
Science and Technology Collaboration 

Research increasingly involves complex international partnerships between
diverse actors such as universities, industry, start-up companies, and
venture capital providers.  Such relationships can give rise to equally
complex intellectual property and technology disputes.  To help parties
obtain a better understanding of the issues that might give rise to disputes
and to address the various options for resolving them, the Center plans to
organize a Conference on Dispute Resolution in International Science and
Technology Collaboration in Geneva on Monday, April 25 and Tuesday, April
26, 2005.  We invite you to reserve these dates and will be providing
further information in due course. Updated information is available at
http://arbiter.wipo.int/events/workshops/2004/arbitration/conference.html 

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III.  Center Publications

I also take this opportunity to inform you of the availability of the
following new publications produced by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation
Center:  

1."Dispute Resolution for the 21st Century" provides an up-to-date
description of all services and activities of the WIPO Arbitration and
Mediation Center and answers basic questions about the Center's purpose,
procedures and experience.  It can be downloaded at
http://arbiter.wipo.int/center/publications/21st-century-en.pdf

2."Guide to WIPO Domain Name Dispute Resolution" is a practical overview of
the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) procedure,
case-filing guidelines, and information on the domain name resources offered
by the Center.  It can be downloaded at
http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/arbitration/892/wipo_pub_892.pdf 

All of the Center's publications, including the "WIPO Arbitration and
Mediation Rules" (listed at
http://arbiter.wipo.int/center/publications/index.html), may be ordered free
of charge or downloaded from our website.

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We look forward to assisting you with your dispute resolution requirements,
and to seeing you at our events.

Yours sincerely,
 
Erik Wilbers
Acting Director
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center