Next steps for the Trademark Clearinghouse

Did cybersquatting increase in 2015? Not necessarily, but brand owners were more active in tackling the problem at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) than the previous year. According to WIPO figures published in 2016, trademark owners filed 2,754 cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), 4.6% more than in 2014. Disputes concerning new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) accounted for 10.5% of the overall filings, with WIPO stating that the new suffixes had helped to drive the 4.6% increase.