<div dir="ltr">Hi Paul,<br><br>The link you offered is one behind a paywall, so not very useful for me as a non-subscriber.<br><br>But I note that Winterfeldt IP Group has also released a client advisory which points to uncertainty and important element(s) not raised in the appeal and therefore not considered by SCOTUS.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Justine<br>---</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 10:51, McGrady, Paul D. <<a href="mailto:PMcGrady@taftlaw.com" target="_blank">PMcGrady@taftlaw.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thanks Anne.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">All, here is the link to the actual decision:
</span><a href="https://www.law360.com/dockets/download/5efb47347da17405e86713cb?doc_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2Fopinions%2F19pdf%2F19-46_8n59.pdf&label=Opinion" target="_blank">https://www.law360.com/dockets/download/5efb47347da17405e86713cb?doc_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2Fopinions%2F19pdf%2F19-46_8n59.pdf&label=Opinion</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Supreme Court strikes down the USPTO’s per se rule against allowing trademark registration for generic term + trademark. Justice Ginsburg does a great job of pointing
out why people who are worried about a competitor no longer being able to use the generic word (e.g. claims that there would be a monopoly on such a term) have nothing to fear. It’s a great read. I wish we could get her on one of our calls!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The same is, of course, true in ICANNland – a so-called closed generic for .hammers would not stop anyone from using “hammers” to identify hammers. And, just
like the for the USPTO, a per se rule against them makes no sense. This is, no doubt, why the ICANN Board deferred the 2012 closed generic applications to the upcoming round and asked us to develop policy to deal with those deferred applications. I remain
hopeful, against all nay saying to the contrary, that we can still eek out some policy here as the Board asked us to do.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Best to all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Gnso-newgtld-wg] FW: Client Alert - Supreme Court Finds <a href="http://BOOKING.COM" target="_blank">BOOKING.COM</a> Non-Generic And Capable Of Federal Trademark Registration<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(153,51,102)">Just in case anyone on the list is wondering about the US Supreme Court decision in the <a href="http://booking.com" target="_blank">booking.com</a> trademark case that Paul and I were discussing on the list, please see attached summary. Again, my view is
this is a “secondary meaning” case with uncontested evidence that consumers recognized the domain as a source indicator of the owner’s services.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(153,51,102)">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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