Re: [ga] challenge to legality of UDRP goes to court

[William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>]

Friday, Friday, September 07, 2001, 8:55:51 PM, L Gallegos wrote:

>>From Michael Geist's newsletter.  
> One can only hope.

> BANCOCHILE.COM UDRP DECISION LEADS TO LAWSUIT Eric 
> Bord, a Washington, D.C.-area immigration lawyer who lost a 
> UDRP decision at WIPO has asked a federal court to let him keep 
> the address and to quash the UDRP process.  Two of the three 
> panel members had ruled that Bord had no rights over the 
> BancoChile.com domain name and ordered him to hand over the 
> name to a Chilean bank.  Bord is claiming under his lawsuit, 
> however, that ICANN"s UDRP fails to provide due process.  
> Interestingly, the Chilean bank was represented at the UDRP by 
> Marino Porzio, who also sometimes serves as a WIPO arbitrator. 
> He is best known for his own UDRP decision a year ago in which 
> he said the municipal government in Barcelona, Spain, deserved to 
> hold the Barcelona.com address being used by a operator of a 
> Web portal for that city.  
> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169824.html

Now there is a case I'd donate to a legal defense fund to help.

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