<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Thanks Chris!!!!!</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div><font style="color: rgb(96, 0, 191); font-weight: bold; font-family: tahoma, times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, 'new york', times, serif">j. scott evans - head of global brand, domains & copyright - Yahoo! Inc. - 408.349.1385 - jscottevans@yahoo.com</font><br></font><br></div><div id="ynano_hooks_page" style="display:none;"><div id="callsToClient_page" style="display:none;"></div><div id="eventsFromClient_page" style="display:none;"></div></div><div id="ynano_hooks_page" style="display:none;"><div id="callsToClient_page" style="display:none;"></div><div id="eventsFromClient_page" style="display:none;"></div></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; "> <div
style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Chris Chaplow <chris@andalucia.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'J. Scott Evans' <jscottevans@yahoo.com>; marilynscade@hotmail.com; psc@vlaw-dc.com <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> bc-gnso@icann.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 5, 2013 8:39 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [bc-gnso] RE: Codes and Communications -- question about ensuring communication<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv3639750192"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv3639750192WordSection1"><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Hi,</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Yes - the LRO is included in the ‘Acronym Buster’ and new ones can be added by email to me or filling in the suggestion form at </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.andalucia.com/icann/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.andalucia.com/icann/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">
</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The ‘Acronym Buster’ or “Acronym Helper” was created from an idea by Scott Pinzon, Ken Bour and myself when we were on the GNSO Improvements Communication and Coordination Work Team writing a spec for the new GNSO website. A programmer in my office quickly developed it and we tested it at </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.andalucia.com/icann/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.andalucia.com/icann/</span></a></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">where
suggestions can be submitted for inclusion. </span></b></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">In practice I keep it up to date and add new ones at the rate of a few a week and even more during ICANN meetings.</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Now there are almost 500 included.</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color:
rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The editorial policy is passive; if the acronym is used in ICANN-land it can be included. Sometimes there are two different acronym versions of the same phrase and one wins in popularity.</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">There is an <iframe> identical copy with exactly the same data set on the BC website which is updated automatically. </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bizconst.org/glossary.htm"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.bizconst.org/glossary.htm</span></a></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Here the text suggests you can send me an email to include a new one.</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The code was also used to develop acronym busters on the GNSO website and the main ICANN website and our data set was used at launch but I suspect they have not been updated much since.</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I am please about how useful and popular it is and also that it has been heralded as a great example of ICANN / Community collaboration to produce a useful
product. </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Best</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(11,
113, 10); ">Chris Chaplow</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 113, 10); "><br></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 113, 10); ">Managing Director</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 113, 10); "><br></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 113, 10); ">Andalucia.com S.L.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Avenida</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; "> del Carmen 9<br>Ed. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color:
black; ">Puertosol</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">, Puerto </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Deportivo</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; "><br>1ª </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Planta</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Oficina</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; "> 30<br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">E</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">stepona</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">, 29680<br>Malaga, Spain<br></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Tel: + (34) 952 897 865</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; "><br></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Fax: + (34) 952 897 874</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; "><br></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">E-mail: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:chris@andalucia.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:chris@andalucia.com"><b>chris@andalucia.com</b></a></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);
"><br></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Web: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.andalucia.com/"><b>www.andalucia.com</b></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; "><br></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 133, 10); ">Information about Andalucia, Spain.</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">De:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] <b>En nombre de </b>J. Scott Evans<br><b>Enviado el:</b> lunes, 05 de agosto de 2013 15:59<br><b>Para:</b> marilynscade@hotmail.com; psc@vlaw-dc.com<br><b>CC:</b> bc-gnso@icann.org<br><b>Asunto:</b> [bc-gnso] RE: Codes and Communications -- question about ensuring communication</span></div></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div><table class="yiv3639750192MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">Marilyn, <br><br>That us an excellent suggestion. Chris?<br><br>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div id="yiv3639750192_origMsg_"><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"
align="center" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><hr size="1" width="100%" align="center"></span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">From: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Marilyn Cade <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com">marilynscade@hotmail.com</a>>; <br><b>To: </b>J. Scott Evans <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jscottevans@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jscottevans@yahoo.com">jscottevans@yahoo.com</a>>; Phil Corwin <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>>; <br><b>Cc: </b>bc - GNSO list <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank"
href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>>; <br><b>Subject: </b>Codes and Communications -- question about ensuring communication <br><b>Sent: </b>Mon, Aug 5, 2013 12:54:29 PM </span></div></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> </span></div><table class="yiv3639750192MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">I am finding this a fascinating discussion, but take note that many are perhaps not familiar with some of the 'acronyms'. [they are defined in original article]. </div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">The BC in fact has a leading role [thanks to Chris Chaplow, V.Chair, Operations and Finance and a few members] in creating the acronym 'buster'.</div><div><div
class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">Do J.Scott and Phil think that LRO rises to the level of needing to be added to th acronym Buster? I wasn't sure, but </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">Chris, if one wanted to add a term to the Acronym Buster, is there a process? </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">The Acronym buster is used by the CSG and by many in the ICANN community, so I am not asking just because of 'us' but also about the larger community's 'understanding'.</div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">I was recently with AfiCTA in Nigeria, speaking to ten associations from across Africa, and earlier in Jordan, speaking to 22 countries at MENA ICT
week -- in both cases -- to businesses. The Acronym Buster was a real 'hit' to decoding ICANN. </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">Just a question about adding in some of the complex terms that help to decode ICANN to business users. </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">Marilyn Cade</div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" id="yiv3639750192stopSpelling"></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:40:38 -0700<br>From: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jscottevans@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jscottevans@yahoo.com">jscottevans@yahoo.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [bc-gnso] FW: New ICA
Post on the LRO<br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a><br>CC: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a></div><div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; ">That's correct you don't, but the article seems to imply that the LRO sets too high a burden or is somehow flawed and, for this reason, trademark owners are getting the proverbial "shaft." I think a LRO would work if a trademark owner could prove a likelihood of confusion or some actual harm. I don't think you are sufficiently harmed just because someone plans to use the a generic term (that may also serve as someone's trademark) for non-infringing purposes. I would argue to you the the LRO is working perfectly, much
like the UDRP works perfectly when trademark owners that can meet the high burden win.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; "> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; ">In sum, I think the system is working as it was intended. I know these results are making some trademark owners unhappy, but trademark law is basically a consumer protection statute, so a complainant should have to show some consumer harm or confusion, not the angst of a marketing department that was asleep at the wheel since June 2008.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; "> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family:
Garamond, serif; color: black; ">J. Scott</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; "> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;background:white;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(96, 0, 191); ">j. scott evans - head of global brand, domains & copyright - Yahoo! Inc. - 408.349.1385 - <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jscottevans@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jscottevans@yahoo.com">jscottevans@yahoo.com</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; "></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; "> </span></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"
align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><hr size="1" width="100%" align="center"></span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; "> Phil Corwin <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> J. Scott Evans <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jscottevans@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jscottevans@yahoo.com">jscottevans@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b>Cc:</b> "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:bc-gnso@icann.org">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>>
<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 4, 2013 8:14 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [bc-gnso] FW: New ICA Post on the LRO</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div><div id="yiv3639750192ecxyiv938153227"><div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">I don't disagree, and never said they were. <br><br>Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal </span></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Virtualaw LLC</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">1155 F Street, NW</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Suite 1050</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"
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of design" -- Branch Rickey</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Sent from my iPad</span></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><br>On Aug 4, 2013, at 10:51 PM, "J. Scott Evans" <<a rel="nofollow" href="">jscottevans@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;"><div><table class="yiv3639750192MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal">I am not so sure any of these cases were wrongly decided. <br><br>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div
id="yiv3639750192ecxyiv938153227_origMsg_"><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div><div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"><hr size="1" width="100%" align="center"></span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Phil Corwin <<a rel="nofollow" href="">psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>>; <br><b>To: </b><a rel="nofollow" href="">bc-gnso@icann.org</a> <<a rel="nofollow" href="">bc-gnso@icann.org</a>>; <br><b>Subject: </b>[bc-gnso] FW: New ICA Post on the LRO <br><b>Sent: </b>Sun, Aug 4, 2013 10:05:16 PM </span></div></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div><table
class="yiv3639750192MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">FYI/BC members may find my latest opinion piece of some interest---</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://internetcommerce.org/LROlooksDOA">http://internetcommerce.org/LROlooksDOA</a></div></div><div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"> </div></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;"><b>LRO Looks DOA</b></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;"><b> </b></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">The Legal Rights Objection (LRO) mechanism administered
by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on behalf of ICANN is starting to look like the reverse FISA Court of domain name system (DNS) rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) at the top level. In FISA Court, the government always wins – at WIPO, the LRO complainant always loses.</div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">The FISA Court is of course the venue in which the U.S. government requests a surveillance warrant against a suspected foreign intelligence agent and is never denied (well, almost never – since the process started in 1979, 11 requests have been denied out of a total of 33,942 received through the end of 2012<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref1" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn1" title=""><sup>[1]</sup></a>). FISA Court proceedings are secret and non-adversarial, with only government lawyers presenting arguments. In
contrast, the decisions resulting from LRO proceedings are published, and both complainant and respondent have equal ability to present their arguments. Yet, as of Friday, August 2<sup>nd</sup> all 28 of the decided LRO complaints, out of a total of 69 filed, resulted in losses for the complainants<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref2" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn2" title=""><sup>[2]</sup></a>. </div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">The lopsided results arouse suspicions that trademark interests may have been fighting the last war and too intensely focused on potential cybersquatting at the second level (a concern that we believe is overblown due to the low traffic prospects for many new gTLDs). They consequently sought and obtained the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMC), Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) RPMs – and also proposed other second level
remedies such as a Global Protected Marks List (GPML) that ICANN did not grant. Yet they may have failed to adequately consider whether top level protections were sufficient, and in particular whether the threshold standard for successfully prosecuting a LRO was unattainably high. </div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">As Thomas O’Toole observed in an excellent analysis recently posted on Bloomberg BNA’s E-Commerce and Tech Law Blog<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref3" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn3" title=""><sup>[3]</sup></a>:</div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>[T]he only surprise the future might hold is the faint prospect that a WIPO panelist might actually rule in favor of a trademark owner…The biggest lesson so far has been that the Legal Rights Objection process is wholly ineffective
for trademark owners seeking to knock down proposed domains containing generic strings. In many cases, companies owning marks for terms such as EXPRESS, HOME, VIP, LIMITED, MAIL, TUNES have lost LROs to domain applicants with no intellectual property rights in those terms whatsoever. Pinterest's failed challenge to Amazon's proposed .pin domain was particularly ominous for mark owners, because Amazon seems pretty clearly to be moving in on Pinterest's business…</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>The reason for this dour outlook can be found in passages from two early LRO rulings: the first one, Right at Home v. Johnson Shareholdings Inc., No. LRO2013-0300 (WIPO, July 3, 2013); and the second, my favorite, Express LLC v. Sea Sunset LLC, No. LRO2013-0022 (WIPO, July 9, 2013)…</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>In Right at Home, panelist
Robert A. Badgley offered the first interpretation of key terms in Section 3.5 of ICANN's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb">New gTLD Applicant Guidebook</a>. The guidebook uses highly qualified language, directing LRO panelists to decide whether the proposed new domain "takes unfair advantage" of the trademark owner's rights, or "unjustifiably impairs" the value of the mark, or creates an "impermissible likelihood of confusion" between the mark and the proposed domain.</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>In Badgley's view, this language creates a very high burden for trademark-based objections…Obviously, it is going to be very difficult for any trademark owner to demonstrate that a proposed domain is so fishy it satisfies the "something untoward ... if not to the level of bad faith" standard…</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>The second opinion, Express LLC v. Sea Sunset LLC, was one of the better opinions (and I am including the federal court stuff that we wade through every day) I have read in a while. Panelist Frederick M. Abbott carefully summarized the arguments on each side (there are good lessons here for attorneys working on the next round of legal rights objections), and the law that he was required to apply to the dispute. When Abbott turned to the reasoning behind his decision to reject Express LCC's objection to the proposed .express top-level domain, I got that sense that this panelist was a teeny bit irked that ICANN itself had not made the hard policy choices that the LRO had just dropped in his lap. It's one thing to ask a panelist to transfer a domain name that might have cost the registrant $10 or so; and it's quite another to ask a panelist to upset an investment of at least a half-million dollars in a new
top-level domain. All based on a trademark registration for a generic term, in a single market, issued by a single government entity. Abbott declined to do it…</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>These two opinions, taken together, look like a terminal diagnosis for trademark owners with rights in generic terms. Right at Home creates a very permissive standard for what constitutes "unfair advantage" by a domain applicant. Express LLC states, almost categorically, that it is "not reasonable" to allow a trademark owner for a generic term to prevent that term from being used as a top-level domain.</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">O’Toole goes on to speculate that a trademark owner like Express LLC will have equally poor chances of success if it attempts to block others’ use of such hypothetical second level domains as clothing.express,
fashion.express, or shoes.express using the traditional UDRP or the new TMC and URS RPMs -- because all of them focus on the domain name to the left of the dot and pay no heed to the gTLD to the right – and because Express holds no trademark rights in those hypothetical generic terms on the left side. We largely agree with his analysis, and suspect that this could be the next big trademark protection issue looming on ICANN’s horizon as brands complain about the necessity and cost of registering relevant domains at a gTLD that matches one of its trademarks but is operated by a third party (and, by the way, it’s not clear that a brand like Express would have any special “sunrise” registration priority for potential second level domains along the lines of O’Toole’s speculation). Other questions arise, such as whether Federal Express should have priority rights to, or a potential infringement claim against, federal.express.</div><div
class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">Of course, no one was reckless enough to pay a $185,000 gTLD application fee, plus multiple related legal, consulting, and technical costs, to try to “squat’ at the top level on a unique trademark like Google or Microsoft. But when it comes to a dictionary word like Express, unless the applicant was so clueless as to propose its use solely for fashionable clothing, the LRO is essentially useless – and that may be the correct result. Indeed, short of halting the program, it’s not really clear how one can have a generic word TLD program without allowing the addition of top level domains that are identical to someone’s trademark for something; and that alone is not sufficient to prove trademark infringement.</div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">Domain industry observers such as Andrew Allemann have opined that “The LRO is
working just fine, thank you”<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref4" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn4" title=""><sup>[4]</sup></a>, weighing in with this analysis:</div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>The LRO was created to assuage fears that someone would cybersquat on a top level domain…Objections were filed against .VIP, .mail, and .home. Now, you tell me: when you hear these terms, what brand do you think is being cybersquatted?</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>Many of the objections were filed by competing applicants that engaged in trademark frontrunning by obtaining dubious trademarks for the string. Others, such as the United States Postal Service’s objection to .mail, were based on stretched interpretations of a trademark (and that’s being generous).</i></div><div
class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">Another industry analyst, Kevin Murphy, has just declared that he will no longer report automatically on forthcoming WIPO decisions in LRO cases, stating<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref5" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn5" title=""><sup>[5]</sup></a>:</div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>The Legal Rights Objection has, I think, said pretty much everything it’s going to say in this new gTLD application round. I’m feeling pretty confident we can predict that all outstanding LROs will fail.</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i>This prediction is based largely on the fact that the 69 LROs filed in this round all pretty much fall into three categories.</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; "> </span><b><i>Front-running.</i></b><i> These are the cases where the objector is an applicant that secured a trademark on its chosen gTLD string, usually with the dot, just in order to game the LRO process…</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; "> </span><b><i>Brand v Brand.</i></b><i> The objector may or may not be an applicant too, but both it and the respondent both own legit trademarks on the string in question. WIPO’s
LRO panelists have made it clear, most recently yesterday in Merck v Merck (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/amc/en/domains/lro/docs/lro2013-0068.pdf" title="WIPO">pdf</a>) and Merck v Merck (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/amc/en/domains/lro/docs/lro2013-0069.pdf" title="WIPO">pdf</a>), that having a famous brand does not give you the right to block somebody else from owning a matching famous brand as a gTLD.</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; "> </span><b><i>Generic trademarks.</i></b><i> Cases where an owner of a legit brand that matches a dictionary word files an objection against an applicant
for the same string that proposes to use it in its generic sense. See <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://domainincite.com/13691-donuts-beats-dot-brand-in-fight-over-express-gtld" title="DI">Express v Donuts</a>, for example. Panelists have found that unless there’s some nefarious intent by the applicant, the mandatory second-level rights protection mechanisms new gTLD registries must abide by are sufficient to protect trademark rights.</i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:20.4pt;background:white;"><i><span style="color:black;">In short, the LRO may be one of many deterrents to top-level cybersquatting, but has proven itself an essentially useless cash sink if you want to prevent the use of a trademark at the top level.</span></i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:20.4pt;background:white;"><i><span style="color:black;">The impact of this, I believe,
will be to give new gTLD consultants another excellent reason to push defensive gTLD applications on big brands in future new gTLD rounds.</span></i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><i> </i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">We largely agree with Murphy’s analysis. There may well be a few cases in the remaining objections to be adjudicated by WIPO in which the complainant prevails. But we suspect that they will be such unique outliers that they will actually reinforce what an exceedingly narrow remedy the LRO has turned out to be. That limited utility has already led one disgruntled complainant/competing applicant to declare, <i>“Seems the entire WIPO LRO process was set-up to fail by ICANN with the guidelines they gave the Panelists.”<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref6" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn6" title=""><b><sup>[6]</sup></b></a></i></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">And, as Murphy observes, filing a LRO with WIPO is not inexpensive. Total filing fees for a single objection to a single new gTLD application can range from $10,000 for a single-expert panel, and up to $23,000 for a 3-expert panel<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref7" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn7" title=""><sup>[7]</sup></a>. On top of the fees there are of course legal costs for the attorney preparing the complaint and related expenses for amassing documentation. If the LRO continues to be a preordained shutout for complainants then it is unlikely that it will be used very much at all in the second round of gTLD applications unless significant – and undoubtedly controversial – changes are made in the adjudication
standard to give complainants a higher probability of prevailing.</div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">As for the other objection procedure available to third parties, the Community Objection<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref8" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn8" title=""><sup>[8]</sup></a> administered by the <span lang="EN">International Centre for Expertise of the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), no judgment can yet be rendered on its efficacy because the Center has yet to issue a single decision on the dozens of cases<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref9" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn9" title=""><sup>[9]</sup></a> filed with it. However, with standing limited to established institutions associated within a clearly defined community objectors first have to surmount that procedural
hurdle, and then make the string substantive case that there is substantial opposition to the gTLD application from a significant portion of the community to which the gTLD string may be explicitly or implicitly targeted. Additionally, complaints were voiced at the recent Public Forum in Durban that ICC fees<a rel="nofollow" name="_ftnref10" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/#_ftn10" title=""><sup>[10]</sup></a> , which begin at 17,000 Euro but can quickly mount given the 450 Euro hourly rate for expert arbitrators, are not affordable for many community organizations.</span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">Summing up, the LRO may well have been an effective deterrent against applications for unique trademarked terms but has so far been useless in regard to applications for generic word trademarks, regardless of the trademark’s strength and
legitimacy. Its lack of general applicability also seems to be setting up a series of second level domain disputes that may well be outside the existing scope of the UDRP, URS, TMC, or other available rights protection and prioritization mechanisms. All of this may lead to further debate within ICANN on the appropriate scope of trademark rights protections– as well as litigation being filed by unsuccessful complainants who refuse to take WIPO’s decision as the final judgment on their claims. </div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">The clear lesson to brand owners of generic word trademarks is this: If and when the second round of new gTLD applications commences, if you wish to own your trademark at the top level of the DNS (or at least stop others from owning it) you had better open your wallet and apply for it. That compulsion toward unwanted defensive registrations is almost sure to generate further
controversy amid charges that ICANN has developed a Midas Touch-like mechanism for generating perpetual revenues for application and use fees for the protection of dictionary words. </div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;">Of course, the inflow of defensive applications for generic word trademarks could be a mere trickle compared to the potential surge of defensive and offensive applications for non-trademarked generic words if ICANN ultimately spurs the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) advice to prohibit “closed generic” gTLDs unless they satisfy a high public interest standard. In that scenario, every company of any heft will have to seriously consider gTLD applications for the major language words describing its key activities and products, lest a competitor do so first and lock them away. But that’s an issue falling outside any trademark protection debate and a discussion for another
day.</div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color:#5D5C6A;">[1]<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Court"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Court</span></a></span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color:#5D5C6A;">[2]<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/lro/cases/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/lro/cases/</span></a></span></div><div class="yiv3639750192MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:15.6pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color:#5D5C6A;">[3]<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bna.com/icann-legal-rights-b17179875369/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">http://www.bna.com/icann-legal-rights-b17179875369/</span></a></span></div><div
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