Torsten Bettinger is a partner with the patent attorneys and attorney-at law chambers of Bettinger Scheffelt Kobiako von Gamm in Munich. He advises in all fields of intellectual property and specializes in the creation of global trademark and branding strategies, programs to protect intellectual property rights against infringement, unfair competition and copyright. He has counseled clients on cutting-edge issues such as the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program, including drafting and prosecuting new gTLD applications and developing advocacy and enforcement strategies in this space. As counsel and as WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center panelist, Mr Bettinger has been involved in decisions on numerous domain name conflicts based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and similar processes for country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Allegra Waddell is an intellectual property attorney. She is barred in Missouri, United States, and is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office. Before beginning work as a private legal consultant on UDRP-related matters, Allegra served several years on the Legal Staff of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Section of WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center. During her time at WIPO, she was involved in the drafting of the electronic version of the UDRP Rules approved by ICANN in October 2009, served as the WIPO contact to the CentralNic registry regarding its third-level registration policy, and was heavily involved in the research for and drafting of the second edition of theWIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Decisions released in February 2011.
In glorious, ministerial red linen with delicate gold embossing and navy accents, the traditional cover of this book belies the very modern topic it covers: Domain Names. If you've got a domain law question, this book likely has the answer. * Nicola Searle, IPKat blog * Systematically examined and clearly stated, the full scope of domain name law is comprehensively covered in this treatise. It is an excellent reference book. * Jane F. Collen, The Trademark Reporter (Vol. 106 No.3) *