At the occasion of the 2025 WIPO Assemblies, WIPO organizes a side-event to celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement. It will take place on July 10, 2025, in WIPO (AB Building), with the following schedule:

- 1:00-2:00 PM CET: Celebrating buffet / lunch / exhibition (Lobby/Terrace). Several oriGIn members have contributed GI products for the lunch/buffet.

- 2:00-3:00 PM CET: High-Level Panel (Room A). It will be webcasted live on the WIPO website.

Everyone interested is welcome to join the live stream online.

The World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO Center) and the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) have convened a project team to conduct a review of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP): WIPO-ICA UDRP Review.

An Initial Report of the WIPO–ICA UDRP Review Project Team has been published in April this year.

While the Project Team recognizes that the success of the UDRP could encourage its expansion beyond trademark-based cybersquatting cases (for instance to GIs), it does not recommend that the ICANN’s Phase 2 Review consider, as…