Policy

Procedure

Complaints Submission Form

Response Submission Form

Reply Submission Form

Basic Guide to DRS

Timetable

Decisions

Experts

Mr. Gibson is an expert in the legal issues relating to electronic commerce, intellectual property and dispute resolution, and plays a key role in developing the firm's international practice specialising in intellectual property and regulatory matters, dispute resolution, e-commerce and technology services, and international law issues.

Mr. Gibson recently left the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, where he was Head of the Electronic Commerce Law Section. Among his responsibilities, he has covered domain names, trademark and copyright issues. He has extensive experience with the rules, new rule making procedures and strategies used by WIPO and other international governmental or non-governmental organizations. In particular, Mr. Gibson was a principal officer in the development of WIPO's domain name work, including the WIPO Domain Name Report and the dispute resolution procedures which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) adopted as the Uniform Domain Name Procedure (UDRP). Prior to assuming his responsibilities as Head of the Electronic Commerce Law Section, he was a Senior Legal Officer in the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

Mr. Gibson has a broad background in private commercial and public international law, as well as international arbitration. Following law school, he clerked for The Honourable Stanley A. Weigel in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. Before joining WIPO, he practised with an international law firm in its San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices, worked as a Legal Assistant at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague, The Netherlands, and headed a division of the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva dealing with claims arising from the Gulf War.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

E-commerce
Dispute Resolution
Intellectual Property and Regulatory Matters
Public International Law

EDUCATION

Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California J.D., 1988

Notes and Comments Editor, Ecology Law Quarterly
AmJur Awards, Commercial Law, Criminal Law, and Civil Procedure
Northwestern Regional Finalist Team, 1986 Jessup International Moot Court Competition

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

M.Public Policy, Economics, Finance and Energy Policy, 1984

University of Chicago

B.A., European and English History, 1982 with honors
Abram L. Harris award for outstanding academic achievements and extracurricular contributions
Phi Gamma Delta

MEMBERSHIP IN STATE BARS

California; UK Registered Foreign Lawyer

PUBLICATIONS

• "Digital Dispute Resolution, Internet Domain Names and WIPO's Role," Computer and Recht International (February 2001), to be published in a revised version in the California International Lawyer.
   
• "Intellectual Property Issues and Standards," Multilingual Computing and Technology, Vol. 11, No. 33, Issue 5 (August 2000).
   
• "WIPO Primer on Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property," Editor and Principal Author, WIPO/OLOA/EC/PRIMER (May 2000).
   
• "Awards and Other Decisions," The American Review of International Arbitration, Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia University, Vol. 9 (1998).
   
• "Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, International Litigation," The International Business Lawyer (Summer 1997).
   
• "Arbitration in International Intellectual Property Disputes," The California International Practitioner, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1997).
   
• "Using Computers to Evaluate Claims at the United Nations Compensation Commission," Arbitration International, Journal of the London Court of International Arbitration, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1997).
   
• "Mass Claims Processing: Techniques for Processing Over 400,000 Claims for Individual Loss at the United Nations Compensation Commission," Thirteenth Sokol Colloquium on International Law, University of Virginia Law School (1994).
   
• "Creative Oil Stockpiling: Evaluating a Three Country Agreement And Designing A Negotiating Strategy," Published by Energy and Environmental Policy Center, Harvard University Energy Security Program and submitted to United States Department of State, H-84-03 (1984).