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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I don’t wish to guess as to who encouraged this hearing or what the view of staff is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">However, IP interests have long exercised considerable influence over this Subcommittee, which has primary responsibility for patents, trademarks, and copyrights. The same
Subcommittee recently held two separate days of hearings </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">on "Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online: Legitimate Sites v. Parasites” – although Chairman Goodlatte has also
stated that he opposes the expansion of Federal domain seizure authority as proposed in last year’s Senate COICA legislation. So the choice of venue is significant in that it means the hearing will probably be more IP-centric.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> john@crediblecontext.com [mailto:john@crediblecontext.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Phil Corwin<br>
<b>Cc:</b> bc-gnso@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [bc-gnso] House Judiciary Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on gTLD Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Do you have a sense of where staff wants to take the hearing? Do you know who instigated? Do you think it is more meaningful because it is a subcommittee of
Judiciary and not Commerce?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Subject: [bc-gnso] House Judiciary Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on gTLD<br>
Program<br>
From: Phil Corwin <<a href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com"><span style="color:windowtext">psc@vlaw-dc.com</span></a>><br>
Date: Tue, April 26, 2011 6:31 am<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org"><span style="color:windowtext">bc-gnso@icann.org</span></a>" <<a href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org"><span style="color:windowtext">bc-gnso@icann.org</span></a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_05022011.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color:blue">http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_05022011.html</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2141 Rayburn House Office Building<br>
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Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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