CIIDRC 2024 UDRP Panelist Training & Workshop

CIIDRC 2024 UDRP Panelist Training & Workshop conference will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on Friday, October 18, 2024.

Boost your expertise, delve into the intricacies of UDRP practice, procedure, and jurisprudence.

Engage in dynamic discussions, case analyses, and real-world scenarios.

Expand your network by meeting other professionals in the field.

8:30 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM	Working Session
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Lunch
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM	Networking

8:30 am – 9:00 am – Breakfast
Morning Session (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) Hot Topics and Best Practices for Party Representatives (Open to all panelists and practitioners – recorded)

Topics Covered:

The Domain Name Market – Zak Muscovitch
UDRP Statistics – Doug Isenberg
How to Lose a UDRP Case & Streamlined Complaint Drafting for Maximum Efficiency – Steve Levy & Claude Freeman
Refiled Complaints – Richard Levy & Michael Erdle –
Prevailing in Contested and Close Cases– Gerald Levine
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Lunch
Afternoon Session (1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.) Interactive Caselaw Refresher and Best Practices (For panelists only, in camera – not recorded)

Topics Covered:

Basics of a Good Decision
Common Misconceptions
Consensus Views on Frequently Occurring Issues
Decision Writing – The Importance of Providing Details
Ask Your Questions About ‘What to Do’

Discussion Points:

Disputes outside the scope of the Policy – What’s in the gray area?
Should professional party representatives be held to a higher standard?
Dealing with falsified evidence in the age of AI
How to conduct a 3-member panel
When to issue a procedural order

5 pm – Reception

Workshop Facilitators

Zak Muscovitch (Muscovitch Law Firm)

Zak is a CIIDRC Panelist and lawyer in Toronto.

Since 1999, Zak has acted as counsel on behalf of both complainants and respondents in over 100 contested UDRP proceedings and other national domain dispute mechanisms, including the CDRP. Zak was counsel in several of the earliest precedent-setting court cases in Canada involving the intersection of trademarks and domain names, such as Toronto.com vs. Sinclair, Black v. Molson, Cheaptickets v. Emall.ca, and Easthaven v. Nutrisystem. Zak participates in Internet governance through ICANN’s Business Constituency, ICANN’s Rights Protection Mechanisms Working Group (2020) and the Transfer Policy Working Group. Zak writes about interesting UDRP disputes in the weekly ICA UDRP Digest.

Steven M. Levy, Esq. (Accent Law Group, Inc.)

In his over 34 years of practice, Mr. Levy’s experience in the field of intellectual property has been quite broad, but he has a particular focus on disputes between trademarks and domain names. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Levy has filed over 625 complaints under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and similar domain name dispute arbitration policies. He is also a UDRP panelist (arbitrator) for three of the global dispute providers and has authored decisions in over 360 cases. Prior to creating the Accent Law Group, Mr. Levy led the global intellectual property practice team at the Home Depot and was an associate at the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP. He received his J.D. degree in 1989 from Brooklyn Law School in New York City. Mr. Levy is a member of the bar in Pennsylvania, New York, and the District of Columbia. He has served on the Internet Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA) as well as on the Rights Protection Mechanisms Review Working Group at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and is also a founding member of the UDRP Exploratory Group. Mr. Levy is flattered and excited to work with the CIIDRC as a Panelist and as a facilitator for this Workshop.

Doug M. Isenberg, Esq (The GigaLaw Firm)

Doug Isenberg is an attorney and founder of The GigaLaw Firm, where he has recovered thousands of domain names for clients over the past 27 years, including under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS), and numerous dispute policies applicable to country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs). In 2009, he filed the largest complaint that has ever been filed under the UDRP.

Doug serves as a domain name panelist for a number of domain name dispute service providers, including the Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Centre (CIIDRC).

On his GigaLaw website, Doug has published a 14-part “masterclass” on domain name disputes, which he regularly supplements with UDRP case studies on YouTube; and he also publishes GigaLaw’s Domain Dispute Digest, a quarterly update on filing trends under the UDRP and the URS, the only publication of its kind.

The World Trademark Review has said that Doug is “a whiz on all things to do with Internet law and domain names.”

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