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

["Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I was off of e-mail, and I may be a little slow, but I am not sure I 
understand WIPO's response.

They state: "At the 10-May-2011 webinar, WIPO will make a number of 
observations on the envisaged process and on the UDRP more generally."

Which process are they referring to?  The process to review the UDRP?  What 
observations can be made on a process that we have not developed yet?  We are 
only just trying to create an issue report.

I am also not clear on what it means to make observations on the UDRP more 
generally, but if that is how they want to use their time, I have no objections.

Margie - Will this help you with the issue report?  I think that is the 
ultimate question.  If the answer is yes, then great.  

Thanks.

Jeffrey J. Neuman 
Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy
Please note new address:  21575 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling VA 20166     


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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [gnso-udrp-dt] Recommendations from WIPO on Speakers



I like the thought that has gone into WIPOs suggestions and would be
inclined to take them up on all the suggested speakers.
Philip


> ___________
>
> 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.
>
>