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Alfa Tomei Spyder Author Brian Snelson Licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Source Wikipedia Mille Miglia    Jane Lambert Case No. DRO2018-0012 Automobile Club di Brescia v. Zhao Ke It is well known that the WIPO's  Arbitration and Mediation Centre resolves generic top-level domain name disputes . It also resolves top-level domain name disputes for a number of countries . One of those countries is Romania . Over the Christmas holidays, I was asked to consider a complaint by the Automobile Club of Brescia against one Zhao Ke in China.  I decided the case on 4 Jan 2019.  Those who are interested in the case will find my decision  here.   There was nothing unusual about this case either on the facts or in law but it was my first country code dispute and it concerned the famous Mille Miglia road race between Brescia and Rome and back. "Mille Miglia" means "1,000 miles" in Italian which was the approx...

WIPO Head Office in Geneva Photo Jane Lambert © 2006 Jane Elizabeth Lambert: all rights reserved Jane Lambert Since 2005 the European Union has had its own top level domain space for businesses, institutions and individuals domiciled in any of the EU or EFTA mmber states.  The best known users of that domain space are the EU institutions such as the European Union itself (http://europa.eu/), the Court of Justice of the European Union (https://curia.europa.eu) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (https://euipo.europa.eu) but there are others who have registered ".eu" domain names. The agreement to register an ".eu" domain name requires complaints by trade mark owners over the registration of the domain name to be referred to a panel appointed by a dispute resolution service provider chosen by the complainant. Up to now, the Czech Arbitration Court  has been the only dispute resolution service provider but from tomorrow it wi...