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

[Margie Milam <Margie.Milam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim-
I am working on it now--- will send it around as soon as I finish.

Best Regards,
Margie



From: owner-gnso-udrp-dt@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-udrp-dt@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Tim Ruiz
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:16 AM
To: gnso-udrp-dt@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gnso-udrp-dt] Recommendations from WIPO on Speakers

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
> Date: Fri, April 29, 2011 9:06 am
> To: "gnso-udrp-dt@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso-udrp-dt@xxxxxxxxx>"
>
> Dear All,
>
> I just received WIPO’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’s UDRP panelist recommendations, David Bernstein and Tony Willoughby.  
> Mr. Bernstein and Mr. Willoughby are among the most respected and appointed 
> of WIPO’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’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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