AGIP Participates in ICANN Meetings in Vancouver
03 Dec 2005VANCOUVER - "Spoofing and phishing, cyber squatting, protection of famous trademarks, translation and transliteration, as well as dispute resolution procedures are among several legal challenges that face trademark owners in the field of internationalized domain names (IDNs)," said Charles Sha’ban, Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) executive director during the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Meetings in
Vancouver, Canada, November 30 - December 4, 2005.
In his presentation on Internationalized (multilingual) Domain Names (IDNs), at the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) and the country-code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) meetings, on December 1, Sha'ban discussed several vital points concerning IDNs with special focus on intellectual property protection including the protection of famous trademarks.
"Multilingual trademarks are protected either by transliteration or translation," he said, "or through the international laws that are capable of providing protection for multilingual trademarks, in particular, the international treaties like, the Paris Convention, TRIPS, Trademark Law Treaty, and the Madrid Protocol," he added.
"The presentation provided a briefing on the IDNs including their evolution and current status, in addition to what the country-code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) managers need to be aware of," added Sha'ban.
During the ccNSO meeting, Mr. Hiro Hotta (from Japan Registry Services) and Mr. Sha’ban were assigned to liaise with the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) to study IDN related issues and report back with their recommendations to the ccNSO council and members.
ICANN meetings incorporated a series of important workshops and roundtables on IDNs, New TLD policy development process, the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), Whois policy development and others.
Present at this meeting were members of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), ccTLD managers, business leaders, registrar and registry groups, non-commercial Internet users, intellectual property holders and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from across the world
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