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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks Alexander. I am not making that argument and so won’t address your variant of an argument I’m not making.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The point of the booking.com decision is that it shreds the arguments that <. + generic term> TLDs will somehow cause a competitive harm. Shreds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alexander Schubert<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 2, 2020 10:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Client Alert - Supreme Court Finds BOOKING.COM Non-Generic And Capable Of Federal Trademark Registration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I don’t understand: Are you arguing that because Booking.com won the right to deny third parties using the letter combination “booking.com” in connotation with
hotel booking services an applicant for a generic string based gTLD could deny public access to the new gTLD namespace?
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In your opinion; if the domain registration for booking.com would expire, could Booking.com deny the new registrant from offering hotel booking services on a website to which the domain routes – based on their “booking.com” TM (once they have it)?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Gnso-newgtld-wg [<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org">mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>McGrady, Paul D.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2020 18:13<br>
<b>To:</b> Justine Chew <<a href="mailto:justine.chew@gmail.com">justine.chew@gmail.com</a>>; Rubens Kuhl <<a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br">rubensk@nic.br</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Client Alert - Supreme Court Finds BOOKING.COM Non-Generic And Capable Of Federal Trademark Registration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks Justine. Understood. And to be clear, SCOTUS doesn’t address our exact debate (although we are mentioned in the one-man dissent but in that dissent Justice Breyer specifically mentions how new gTLD registries
are building brand awareness for their brands, e.g. .club – so again helpful to those who believe <.+generic term> TLDs should remain available as they were in the AGB2012 Guidebook), it just dispatched the fear-of-not-being-able-to-use-the-term argument upon
which the <anti-.+ generic term> have built their case and generally takes a big swing at per se rules. Lucky timing, since it gives this WG another chance to actually make Policy as the Board asked us to do rather than just saying “we don’t know.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I understand why those whose position is essentially vitiated by this SCOTUS decision want to push hard to get the topic removed from discussion now that this case it out. Even so, hopefully the Co-chairs will
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Justine Chew <</span><a href="mailto:justine.chew@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">justine.chew@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rubens Kuhl <</span><a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">rubensk@nic.br</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>; McGrady, Paul D. <</span><a href="mailto:PMcGrady@taftlaw.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">PMcGrady@taftlaw.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Cc:</b> </span><a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Client Alert - Supreme Court Finds BOOKING.COM Non-Generic And Capable Of Federal Trademark Registration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul, I wasn't suggesting we dismiss what SCOTUS said, but as we well know, there could be room to distinguish court decisions. But I will read the SCOTUS judgment, thanks to you.<br>
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Rubens, sorry to not be helpful here - I don't know - but it's not inconceivable to me that a (supreme) court of a different jurisdiction may choose to hold a different view.<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 11:53, Rubens Kuhl <<a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br">rubensk@nic.br</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 10:49, McGrady, Paul D. <<a href="mailto:PMcGrady@taftlaw.com" target="_blank">PMcGrady@taftlaw.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks Justine. I’ve attached a PDF for you. I’m not familiar with the contents of the other commentary article you mention, but I think the actual opinion by Ginsburg makes it
clear that the per se rule is quite abolished at the USPTO. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The Justice writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">“The PTO’s principal concern is that trademark protection for a term like “</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">”
would hinder competitors. But the PTO does not assert that others seeking to offer online hotel-reservation services need to call their services “</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">.”
Rather, the PTO fears that trademark protection for “</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">” could exclude or inhibit
competitors from using the term “booking” or adopting domain names like “</span><a href="http://ebooking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">ebooking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">”
or “</span><a href="http://hotel-booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">hotel-booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">.” Brief for Petitioners 27–28. The PTO’s objection, therefore,
is not to exclusive use of “</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">” as a mark, but to undue control over similar language,
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.25pt">i.e.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.25pt">, “booking,” that others should remain free to use.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">That concern attends any descriptive mark. Responsive to it, trademark law hems in the scope of such marks short of denying trademark protection altogether. Notably, a competitor’s use does not infringe a mark
unless it is likely to confuse consumers. See §§1114(1), 1125(a)(1)(A); 4 McCarthy §23:1.50 (collecting state law). In assessing the likelihood of confusion, courts consider the mark’s distinctiveness: “The weaker a mark, the fewer are the junior uses that
will trigger a likelihood of consumer confusion.” 2 </span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">id.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">, §11:76. When a mark incorporates generic or highly descriptive components, consumers are less
likely to think that other uses of the common element emanate from the mark’s owner.
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">Ibid. </span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">Similarly, “[i]n a ‘crowded’ field of look-alike marks” (</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">,
hotel names including the word “grand”), consumers “may have learned to carefully pick out” one mark from another.
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">Id.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">, §11:85. And even where some consumer confusion exists, the doctrine known as classic fair use, see
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">id.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">, §11:45, protects from liability anyone who uses a descriptive term, “fairly and in good faith” and “otherwise than as a mark,” merely to describe
her own goods. 15 U. S. C. §1115(b)(4); see </span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">KP Permanent Make-Up</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">,
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">Inc. </span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">v.
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">Lasting Impression I</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">,
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.3pt">Inc.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.3pt">, 543 U. S. 111, 122–123 (2004).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">These doctrines guard against the anticompetitive effects the PTO identifies, ensuring that registration of “</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">”
would not yield its holder a monopoly on the term “booking.” </span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt"> concedes that “</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">”
would be a “weak” mark. Tr. of Oral Arg. 66. See also </span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">id.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">, at 42–43, 55. The mark is descriptive,
</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt"> recognizes, making it “harder . . . to show a likelihood of confusion.”
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">Id.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">, at 43. Furthermore, because its mark is one of many “similarly worded marks,”
</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt"> accepts that close variations are unlikely to infringe.
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">Id.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">, at 66. And
</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt"> acknowledges that federal registration of “</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">Booking.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">”
would not prevent competitors from using the word “booking” to describe their own services.
</span><i><span style="letter-spacing:.35pt">Id.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;letter-spacing:.35pt">, at 55.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">So, those against <.+ generic term> TLDs are going to have to find some other basis to argue that there will be some sort of harm. This leaves the opponents with (1) being against
them because they didn’t apply but their competitors did; (2) they are a registrar that can’t make any money on them; (3) a bias against free speech; (4) a bias against nascent trademarks. None of these are nearly as noble sounding as the fear about competitive
harm, but Ginsburg has nicely dispatched that fear. Sure would be nice if the Co-chairs would allow more time, as initially promised, so that we can develop some policy. This decision by SCOTUS is very instructive and we should take the time to understand
it and build guardrails around the <.+ generic term> TLDs instead of just throwing our hands up and sending nothing the Board instead of the something they asked us for.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 1, 2020 8:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> McGrady, Paul D. <</span><a href="mailto:PMcGrady@taftlaw.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">PMcGrady@taftlaw.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Aikman-Scalese, Anne <</span><a href="mailto:AAikman@lrrc.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">AAikman@lrrc.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Client Alert - Supreme Court Finds </span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">BOOKING.COM</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
Non-Generic And Capable Of Federal Trademark Registration</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks Anne.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">All, here is the link to the actual decision:
<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>. 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!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.<o:p></o:p></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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#993366">Dear WG members,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#993366">Just in case anyone on the list is wondering about the US Supreme Court decision in the
</span><a href="http://booking.com/" target="_blank">booking.com</a><span style="color:#993366"> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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