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Domain Name Law and Practice: An International Handbook
Edited by Torsten Bettinger

About the Authors

Sally M. Abel (United States of America)
is the head of the Trademark Group at FENWICK & WEST LLP in Palo Alto, USA. She advises mainly in the field of international trademark and intellectual property rights in signs, in particular in the development and management of trademark portfolios and domain portfolios, and with respect to questions of intellectual property right in signs in cyberspace.
From May 1998 to May 2000, Sally Abel was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Trademark Association (INTA),and from 1996 to 1998 Chairperson of the INTA Internet Subcommittee and of the INTA Issues and Policy Committee. She has long played a leading role in the international debate on the regulation of domain names, including serving as the INTA representative in the International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC). As WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center panelist, she has been involved in decisions on numerous domain name conflicts based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution.
Sally Abel writes and holds lectures on intellectual property rights in signs on the Internet, and holds a course on international trademark law at Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley). She is listed as one of a three most frequently cited trademark attorneys in Euromoney's "Best of the Best" Global Guide to the World's Best Lawyers.

Dr. Mustafa Aksu (Turkey)
is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Istanbul. The focus of his activity is in the field of civil, intellectual property and labour law. Dr. Aksu studied law at the universities of Dicle (Diyarbakir), Istanbul und Tübingen. From 1989-1992 he was academic assistant to Prof. Dr. Münir Ekonomi, Prof. Dr. Devrim Ulucan, Prof. Dr. Öner Eyrenci and Prof. Dr. Savas Taskent at the Faculty of Management Science at the Istanbul Technical University.
Dr. Aksu acquired his doctorate at the Faculty of Law at Tübingen with the assistance of a scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of Culture. Following his doctorate, he worked as academic assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Eduard Picker from 2000 to 2001, and in 2002 held a scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. He is the author of numerous publications on labour, medical liability, Internet and patent law.
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Pravin Anand (India)
is a senior partner of ANAND AND ANAND, New Delhi. He has been practising both as an advocate and as a patent and trademark attorney. He has been a counsel in many important intellectual property cases, and he serves on the editorial board of several international intellectual property journals such as IP Asia, Entertainment Law Review and Computer & Telecommunications Law Review.
Pravin Anand has served on several international and national expert groups and committees, including the Patent Law drafting committee for revising and recommending changes to the law. He is the chairman of IPR Promotion Advisory Committee (IPAC) constituted by the Government of India, and the chairman of the IT Committee set up by FICCI, as well as a panelist of the Regional Centre for Arbitration Kuala Lumpur (RCAKL) and WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.

Dr. Torsten Bettinger, LL.M. (Germany)
is an attorney at law with the patent attorneys and attorney-at-law chambers of BETTINGER SCHNEIDER SCHRAMM in Munich. He advises mainly in the field of industrial property law, e-commerce, software and patent licensing and copyright. Dr. Bettinger is a panelist with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva and was a member of the WIPO-ASPIC Expert Group which was involved in the drafting of the "WIPO-ASPIC Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Best Practices and Guidelines for the Application Server Provider Industry". He is also a member of the Legal Advisory Board to the Deutsche Network Information Centre (DENIC).
Dr. Bettinger holds a Master of Law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1987 to 1991, he was academic assistant to Prof. Karl-Heinz Fezer at the Chair for Civil Law, Economic Law and International Business Relations Law in Constance and from 1995 to 1997 academic assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual property, Competition and Tax Law. He is the author of numerous publications on industrial property rights in signs, computer software law, e-commerce and copyright, and regularly lectures on these topics.
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James Bridgeman, FCIArb (Ireland)
is a practising barrister, arbitrator and mediator. He is a lecturer in Law at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where he read History and Political Science. He subsequently read Law at the Kings Inns, Dublin. Before commencing practice as a barrister he qualified as a Registered Trademarks Agent. He has a Diploma in Arbitration Law (DIT Bolton Street, 1990), a Diploma in International Arbitration Law (DIT Bolton Street, 1991), a Diploma in European Law (UCD, 1994) and a Diploma in Construction Law and Contract Management (TCD, 2004).
James Bridgeman is a former Chairman of the Irish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has a special interest in ADR of commercial and intellectual property disputes. He has published a number of articles and reports on International Arbitration of Intellectual Property Disputes and is the Irish news section correspondent for the European Intellectual Property Review. He is a panelist for the .IE Domain. He has been invited to join the panels of arbitrators and neutrals of the Irish National Committee of the ICC, the World Intellectual Property Organization, National Arbitration Forum (USA), Waqualat (India), e-Resolution (Canada), e-iure (Spain) and the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (Beijing, Hong Kong).

Dr. Angela Brüning (France)
is an attorney at law with BMH AVOCATS in Paris and lecturer for multimedia and data protection law at the University of Paris II (Assas) and the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Paris XII. Dr. Brüning focuses on the field of industrial property and multimedia law. She studied law in Aix-en-Provence and Paris, her doctoral thesis being on the "Protection of the databases in French, German and European law." From 1995 to 1996 Dr. Brüning was academic assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich.
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Remy D. Chavannes (Netherlands)
is attorney at law with BRINKHOF in Amsterdam and specializes in communications law, including media, telecommunications and intellectual property law, with a particular emphasis on internet-related matters.

Erik Daems (Belgium)
is Legal Counsel EMEA for SERENA SOFTWARE, INC, the world's largest software company solely focused on managing change throughout the application lifecycle. Erik was previously active as attorney in law, admitted to the Brussels Bar and worked for both Baker & McKenzie's and Covington & Burling's IP/IT departments. Erik holds his J.D. from the Free Brussels University and an LL.M. from the University of Georgia, USA.

Dr. ric. Philipp Fabbio (Italy)
is academic assistant in intellectual property and competition law at the University "La Sapienza", Rome and in civil law at the University of Messina. He is attorney at law in Rome.
Dr. ric. Fabbio studied law at the University "La Sapienza", Rome and the University of Warwick. He acquired his doctorate at the University of Messina. From 2002 to 2004 he held a scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. In 2004 he was academic assistant at the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. He is author of numerous publications on intellectual property, competition and civil law.
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Dr. Luis Gimeno Olcina, LL.M. (Spain)
is head of the International Trademark Law department of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas) in Madrid. He studied law at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and holds a masters degree in law and economics from the Empresa por la Escuela Libre del Derecho y Economía, Madrid and a masters of law degree in the field of industrial property law from Queen Mary College, University of London.
Dr. Gimeno acquired his doctorate in law at Queen Mary College at the University of London. He is Visiting Professor for the course on industrial property law at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and the Master of Business Administration programme, La Salle Madrid, the Graduate College, Master de Asesoría Juridica de la Empresa, ICADE and Master de Derecho Privado, Colegio de Abogados de Madrid. He is the author of numerous publications on industrial property law.

Makoto Hattori, LL.M. (Japan)
is an attorney at law with the ABE, IKUBO & KATAYAMA chambers in Tokyo. He focuses on the field of industrial property law and competition law, and also advises on questions of general civil law. Makoto Hattori studied law at the Keio University in Tokyo. From 2001 to 2002 he was employed as legal advisor in the Japanese Ministry for the Economy, Trade and Industry (NATI) and participated in the reform of the Act against Unfair Competition, above all with respect to the protection of domain names. In 2000 he studied intellectual property law and American civil procedure at the University of Pennsylvania. Makoto Hattori is the author of numerous publications on Japanese competition law.
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Lars L. Huisman (Netherlands)
is an attorney at law with ARNOLD & SIEDSMA in The Hague and specializes in all aspects of intellectual property law, with a particular emphasis on patent law and copyright on the Internet.

Dr. Gallus Joller (Switzerland)
is an attorney at law at TROLLER HITZ TROLLER & PARTNER. His activities focus on intellectual property and competition law, in particular trademark, company name and advertising law, domain name and IT law. He acts both in court and as advisor. Gallus Joller studied at the universities of Saint Gallen and Geneva. From 1994 to 1997 he worked as academic assistant at the Institute for European Law, Economic Law and Comparative Law at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Fellowships by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Max Planck Society enabled him to do research at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich (1998- 1999). Dr. Gallus Joller is the author of numerous publications on intellectual property law, in particular law of distinctive signs and of domain names.
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Iouri Kobiako (Russian Federation)
is a German patent attorney at FROHWITTER Intellectual Property Counselors in Munich. He is primarily involved with the acquisition and enforcement of industrial property rights and international licensing projects, with strong emphasis on telecommunication technology. Iouri Kobiako earned his summa cum laude degree in applied physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ("PhysTech") in Russia. He obtained his first knowledge in the field of industrial property law at the Russian Institute for Intellectual Property. From 1999 to 2000 Iouri Kobiako held a doctoral student position at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. His work on the topic of legal and economic aspects of technology transfer to Russia was supported by scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Daimler-Benz-Foundation, as well as the Max Planck Society.

Eric Macramalla (Canada)
is a lawyer at GOWLING LAFLEUR HENDERSON LLP. Mr. Macramalla's practice focuses primarily on trade-marks, domain names, electronic commerce, and Internet related legal issues. Mr. Macramalla's background and experience regarding domain names is extensive, having represented numerous clients in Court and arbitration proceedings, and has filed multiple domain name complaints in the dot-ca space. Mr. Macramalla is also a frequent speaker, having lectured law students, local members of the Bar, and businesses on the issues of domain names and trademarks.
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Ravi Mohindra (Australia)
is an IP solicitor for VODAFONE GROUP SERVICES LIMITED, based at Vodafone's headquarters in Newbury, England. Ravi is responsible for managing the Vodafone Group's Global Domain Name Portfolio, and in particular for supporting its strategy in dealing with domain registration and protection, and for enforcement issues.
Previously Ravi was a senior associate in the IP/IT division at the Sydney Office of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, having also worked as a solicitor in the IP groups of Gilbert & Tobin, Sydney, and Bird & Bird, London, where he advised a number of multinational clients in a number of different industries on all aspects of intellectual property and information technology law. In particular, Ravi has extensive experience in trademark and domain name law having represented a number of trademark owners in domain name disputes and UDRP proceedings since 1999.
Ravi is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, and New South Wales Australia.
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Dr. Justyna Ozegalska-Trybalska (Poland)
is academic assistant at the Institute for Intellectual Property Law of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow. Her field of activity covers trademark law, competition law and Internet law. Dr. Ozegalska-Trybalska was a guest scholar at the Columbia University School of Law, New York, and her doctorate was on the topic of "Internet domain names". She is the author of numerous publications on trademark law, competition law and domain names, including a monograph Internet Addresses - Legal Issues.

Steve Palmer (United Kingdom)
is a qualified lawyer with IP specialist firm PALMER BIGGS LEGAL, based near London Gatwick. Steve is admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in England and Wales and is a domain name Panellist with the Czech Arbitration Court for .eu disputes. The focus of Steve's work at PB LEGAL is in the field of Intellectual Property law and Internet law. Steve has recently been recommended by the Legal 500 directory as '...an excellent choice for the protection and enforcement of IP in cyberspace...[and]...experienced in design rights and trade mark filings'. In addition to his particular expertise in defending and enforcing Intellectual Property rights in litigation, he has particular experience in the field of domain name disputes, including under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and Nominet's Dispute Resolution Service.
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Dr. Thomas Pattloch, LL.M.Eur. (China)
is an attorney at law with SCHULZ NOACK BÄRWINKEL, Hamburg, and works at the law firm"s office in Shanghai. He is chairman of the Intellectual Property Working Group of the European Chamber, Shanghai. Dr. Pattloch studied law in Munich with study trips to Italy, Spain, France and Taiwan, where he spent one year at the renowned Shifan University in Taipei in 1993- 1994. From 1998 to 2002 Dr. Pattloch was employed at the Asia department of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Tax Law, and in 2002 acquired his doctorate with a thesis on "The IPR of intellectual property in the Peoples Republic of China" at the University of Passau. Dr. Pattloch holds a masters degree (LL.M.Eur.) from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich.

Alistair Payne (Australia)
is head of the Non-Contentious Intellectual Property Group at MATHESON ORMSBY PRENTICE, Solicitors in Dublin, Ireland (www.mop.ie). Formerly an IP Partner at the Sydney Office of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Alistair has experience advising and representing clients in both contentious and noncontentious industrial property and copyright law matters with a particular emphasis on trademark, domain name and Internet issues. Also a WIPO Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panellist, Alistair has been involved in and decided numerous domain name disputes, is a regular contributor to "The World Trade Mark Law Reporter" and a member of the International Trademark Association.

Renata Potmakova LL.M. (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
is a legal assistant at the Harmonization Office for the Internal Market (OHIM) in the Trademark Department. Until August 2003, she was employed in the Department of International Affairs and European Integration at the Slovakian Office for Industrial Property.
Ms. Potmakova studied law at the Komensky University in Bratislava. She attended the development course for foreign lawyers at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LL.M. course), focusing on European commercial law.

Dr. Panagiotis Rigopoulos LL.M. (Greece) is a lawyer at the Directorate for International Legal Affairs at the European Patent Office in Munich. He studied law at the universities of Athens, Regensburg and Munich. During his masters and doctoral studies at the Ludwig- Maximilian University, Munich, he was an academic assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Tax Law. The focus of his academic activity is on the field of industrial property law and copyright.

Per-Erik Hugo (Petter) Rindforth (Sweden)
is partner and head of the IT department at L.A. GROTH & CO KB in Stockholm. He acts as consultant and court attorney in the field of the industrial property law and IT law. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the International Panel of Mediators of the INTA/CPR. Petter Rindforth is a Member of the Administrative panel of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, the National Arbitration Forum and the Swedish Society of Internet Infrastructure.
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Dr. Reinhard Schanda (Austria)
is an attorney at law and Partner at SATTLER & SCHANDA in Vienna, and advises largely in the field of industrial property law. He is the author of a practical commentary on the Austrian Trademark Act, the permanent Austrian correspondent for the German journal MarkenR, permanent assistant with the Austrian trade journal ecolex and author of numerous articles, papers and comments on decisions in the field of trademark, copyright and domain law. Dr. Schanda also conducted one of the first domain proceedings before the Supreme Court in Austria (sattler.at) and is an ICANN-UDRP administrative panelist at the WIPO Mediation and Arbitration Center and the (US) National Arbitration Forum, and a licensed mediator before the Austrian Mediation Centre for ".at" domains. Alongside his activity as a mediator, he regularly represents parties to the proceedings before these tribunals and works as an attorney at law, advising inter alia in the field of domain name law.
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Jostein Solberg (Norway)
is currently a Deputy Judge at Fredrikstad District Court (tingrett) and was from 2003 to 2004 a senior official at the Norwegian Mass Media Authority. From 2001 to 2003 he was attorney at law at KVALE & CO. in Oslo. The focus of his attorney activities was in the field of industrial property law, competition, and contract and corporate law. Jostein Solberg studied law at the University of Oslo, specializing in industrial property law and copyright through graduate courses at the universities of Sydney and Oslo.

George R.F. Souter (Finland)
was born in the Scottish Highlands, has an MA from Aberdeen University, an LL.M. in European Community Law and is a European patent attorney. He is a partner in LAMMI & PARTNERS Oy in Helsinki, Finland, is a member of the European Trade Mark Reports Editorial Board and is a WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center panelist.

Alain Strowel (Belgium)
is Of Counsel with COVINGTON & BURLING and serves as a professor at the Saint-Louis University (Brussels), the University of Liège and the Catholic University of Leuven, where he mainly teaches copyright and design law. A member of the Brussels Bar since 1988, Alain graduated in law (1983) and obtained a Ph.D. in law (1992) from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. Prior to joining the US firm Covington & Burling in 2001, where he concentrates on the IP issues in relation to IT, he worked in the Brussels IP section of the Dutch firm NautaDutilh. Alain is a panelist for the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center and for the Belgian Arbitration Institution CEPINA with regard to domain name disputes. He authored numerous articles and a few books, including Droit d'auteur et copyright (LGDJ and Bruylant, 1993) and Droit d'auteur et numérique (with Est. Derclaye, Bruylant, 2001).
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Tan Tee Jim, S.C. (Singapore)
is a partner at ALLEN & GLEDHILL and a Senior Counsel in the Supreme Court of Singapore. The focus of his work is in the field of intellectual property law but he also advises on commercial law. He has considerable experience prosecuting and enforcing intellectual property rights and has lectured and written extensively on such rights, including the book "Law of Trade Marks and Passing Off in Singapore".
Tee Jim is a panelist of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center and recently issued a decision as a panelist for the Singapore International Arbitration Center.

Prof. Dr. Dirk J.G. Visser (Netherlands)
is an attorney at law with KLOS, MOREL, VOS & SCHAAP law firm, Amsterdam, and senior professor of intellectual property law at Leiden University. He is the author of numerous publications and is a recognized expert in the field of copyright and neighbouring rights, as well as in trademark law. Professor Visser has represented numerous clients in domain name disputes, and has extensive experience in trademark law litigation both before the national courts and before the European Court of Justice.

Knud Wallberg (Denmark)
is a partner with SANDEL, LØJE & WALLBERG, one of the leading Danish law firms in the field of industrial property law.
He is Assistant Professor in IP law at the University of Copenhagen, and teaches IT law at the Danish IT University. He is author of the Danish trademark law commentary and has published numerous articles on questions of industrial property law, in particular on trademark and domain name law.
Knud Wallberg is a WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center panelist and a member of the Danish Complaints Board for Domain Names. He is also a member of the Trademark World Editorial Council, Chairman of the ECTA Internet Committee and member of the Trademark Team of Marques. He is a member of the Danish Bar Association, and has been head of the Trademark Division of the Danish Patent and Trademark Office for seven years.

Tony Willoughby (United Kingdom)
qualified as a solicitor in 1970 and worked in the Trade Marks Department of The Distillers Company Limited (now part of Diageo) until joining Herbert Smith in 1973. He became a partner in 1977 and remained there until 1994 when he left to join Rouse & Co (now Willoughby & Partners/ Rouse & Co International). Throughout, the focus of his work has been in the field of intellectual property. As a WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Administrative panelist, he has been involved in decisions on numerous ICANN domain name disputes; he also acts as a panelist for the Nominet UK dispute resolution service for the ".uk" domain. He is chairman of the Nominet UK Committee of Experts.
Tony Willoughby wishes to acknowledge the significant assistance he has received from his colleagues, Steve Palmer and Shireen Peermohamed, and from Guy Hollingworth (counsel, 1 Essex Court) in writing the UK chapter.

Hong Xue (Hong Kong)
is Professor of Law at China University of Political Science and Law, and Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, specializing in intellectual property law and information technology law. Hong Xue received her PhD at Law from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Science in 1998. She was the senior counsel of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) and the major draftsperson of the .CN Domain Dispute Resolution Policy. She is the panelist of Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure for both the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center (Hong Kong and Beijing Office).
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