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Guide to WIPO's services for country code top-level domain registries

This guide presents country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry operators and national authorities with information on how to resolve third-party domain name disputes in a cost- and time-saving manner. It explains the main policy design features of a successful Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system, and provides information on the WIPO-created Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), including the possibility to tailor the UDRP for specific ccTLD requirements.

Publication year: 2019

WIPO Guide on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Options for Intellectual Property Offices and Courts

This Guide is designed to provide an overview of ADR processes for IP disputes.

Publication year: 2018

Guide to WIPO Mediation

Mediation has proved very successful in achieving a result beneficial to both sides to a dispute. This booklet provides a straightforward introduction to mediation, based on the extensive experience of the WIPO Center. It describes the main features and advantages of mediation and explains how mediation under the WIPO Mediation Rules works in practice, with case examples.

Publication year: 2018

Guidance on WIPO FRAND Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

This document has been developed by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO Center) and takes into account comments by telecom stakeholders, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Legal Department, WIPO Arbitrators and Mediators, and the Munich IPDR Forum.

Publication year: 2017

Resolving IP and Technology Disputes Through WIPO ADR

Getting back to business

Although an IP dispute can be resolved through court litigation, parties are, with increasing frequency, submitting disputes to mediation, arbitration or other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures.

Publication year: 2016