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THE ICANN CYBERSQUATTING DECISIONS August 12, 2000 through September 15, 2000 ? 2000 M. Scott Donahey Christine Gelat Tomlinson Zisko Gray Cary Morosoli Maser LLP Ware Freidenrich 200 Page Mill Rd. 3340 Hillview Avenue Second Floor Palo Alto, CA 943041203 Palo Alto, CA 94306 email: cgelat@ Tel.: (650) 3258666 Fax.: (650) 3241808 email: msd@ web site:  Mr. Donahey is a member of the panel of neutrals of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the eResolution/D consortium, two of the three providers currently certified by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to hear cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Mr. Donahey has served as a panelist in numerous cases, including The World Wrestling Federation v. Bosman, D990001, the first case to be heard under the UDRP. Christine Gelat is a 1999 graduate of the Santa Clara University School of Law, where, in addition to her juris doctorate, she received a Certificate in International Law. Her honors include the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in International Organizations. Ms. Gelat also obtained a Certificate from the Geneva Strasbourg Institute of International Comparative Law. She is currently employed at Gray Cary Ware Freidenrich in Palo Alto, California, and is a member of the Board of Directors of killersound, Inc. of Mountain View.  The two hundred ten cases digested show a continuation of the trends evident in last month’s digests. Decisions for respondents, which had historically run at 10% of total decisions, account for 22% of this month’s cases, a continuation of the 24% rate shown last month. Most heartening is the number of panel decisions which have cited at least one prior panel decision. That percentage, which had historically been 25% of the decisions jumped last month to 49%. This month the percentage of cases citing at least