Audience: People responsible for the effective protection of the trademarks, IP & trademark lawyers, people interested in the trademark protection in the Domain Name System, people affected by unlawful registration and use of the domain name(s).

Duration and Cost: Standard 2-days training course.

Location: By request.

Course Topics: This training course covers all aspects of the unlawful registration and use of trademarks in the domain names and relates issues:

• what is the Domain Name Systems and how it works,
• legal nature of a domain name,
• roles and responsibilities of Registries, Registrars, Resellers, ICANN and Domain Name Holders (Registrants),
• effective ways to protect trademarks and brands in the Domain Name System,
• effective identification of the Registrant's personal data,
• role of WHOIS, limits and restrictions of WHOIS, results of false contact information in domain name registration,
• personal data protection versus effective IP rights protection,
• first come first served rule versus trademark protection,
• differences between country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) and generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs),
• Arbitration and Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy,
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), The Czech Arbitration Court Arbitration Center for Internet Disputes, National Arbitration Forum and other dispute resolution service providers,
• domain arbitration procedures of different countries,
• trademark protection in new TLDs,
• registration rules of different ccTLDs and the consequences for Trademark owners,
• effectiveness and costs of defensive registrations, guidelines for defensive registrations,
• trademark infringement in the domain names,
• cybersquatting, typosquatting and domain hijacking,
• use of trademarks in pay-per-click ads,
• search engines (Google, Yahoo!) trademark protection policies,
• domain name secondary market.