RE: [gnso-udrp-dt] Recommendations from WIPO on Speakers

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Margie,

Could you publish an updated list of the recommendations now? I know it
isn't final, but would be helpful to see a comprehensive list again.

Thanks,
Tim

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [gnso-udrp-dt] Recommendations from WIPO on Speakers
> From: Margie Milam <Margie.Milam@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, April 29, 2011 9:06 am
> To: "gnso-udrp-dt@xxxxxxxxx" <gnso-udrp-dt@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Dear All,
>  
> I just received WIPO&#8217;s response to my inquiry.   Please note that they 
> took a different approach in making recommendations (focusing on quality 
> rather than quantity) as reflected in the excerpts below from their response.
>  
> Best Regards,
> Margie
> ___________
>  
> WIPO believes in quality of information and approach.  The success of the 
> UDRP is all about substantive expert understanding.  At the 10-May-2011 
> webinar, WIPO will make a number of observations on the envisaged process and 
> on the UDRP more generally.  
>  
> On that basis, and for present purposes, we are pleased to submit as the WIPO 
> Center&#8217;s UDRP panelist recommendations, David Bernstein and Tony 
> Willoughby.  Mr. Bernstein and Mr. Willoughby are among the most respected 
> and appointed of WIPO&#8217;s 450 UDRP panelists.  With hundreds of WIPO UDRP 
> decisions between them, each has authored an extensive body of carefully 
> reasoned UDRP jurisprudence (whereby their recorded transfer rate 
> incidentally ranks among the most conservative).  Mr. Bernstein and Mr. 
> Willoughby have for many years been core faculty members for the annual WIPO 
> Advanced Domain Name Workshop, and have heard there a wide range of views 
> from counsel and filing parties (both complainants and respondents, in-house 
> and outside).  They are eminently qualified to speak on any number of UDRP 
> topics.  
>  
> Both as an Attorney and Complainant, we would recommend Aimee Gessner, of 
> BMW.  Ms. Gessner is an Attorney-at-Law (New York, USA), and Solicitor 
> (England and Wales), and serves as legal counsel for BMW, a brand owner that 
> has filed numerous UDRP disputes with the WIPO Center over many years.  Ms. 
> Gessner has also served as faculty for the WIPO Advanced Domain Name 
> Workshop, and has extensive experience with the UDRP, and of its value and 
> operation from those perspectives, and would be well-qualified to speak with 
> authority on the subject.  
>  
> We also understand that Paul McGrady and John Berryhill have been put forward 
> by others as possible speakers.  For the WIPO Center&#8217;s part, we can 
> confirm that both have made numerous appearances as outside counsel in many 
> WIPO UDRP cases, and have demonstrated experience and substantive knowledge 
> of the UDRP.  While they each will have their own vantage point, we believe 
> both would be competent to speak on the subject from their relevant 
> practitioner perspectives.  
>  
> 
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