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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font
color="#333e48">Hi All,</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font
color="#333e48">I promised to write something up on the
Sunrise Dispute Resolution Policy to help make it
something the challenger -- which can include a trademark
owner, company or organization -- might use. <br>
</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font
color="#333e48">Best, Kathy<br>
</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b><font
color="#333e48">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b><font
color="#333e48">Individual
Proposal #2 and my proposal – largely an operational fix</font></b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#333e48"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>Purpose:
For making the mandatory sunrise dispute resolution
policies fully
usable and ensure that challengers have access to the
information
needed to bring a legitimate challenge.</b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#333e48"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>Registries
have the right to limit Sunrise periods by date of
registration
(e.g., no registrations only 2 days old – I think in Round
1
trademark registrations had to be at least 2 years old)
and by
categories of goods and services. Challengers have the
right to show
that the Sunrise Period was misused for registration that
do not
belong. </b></font></font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#333e48"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>Challengers
may be trademark owners themselves, organizations or
others with
direct interest in that top level domain (e.g., it may be
a
noncommercial top level domain). As noted in Individual
Proposal #2 –
The Sunrise Dispute Resolution Policies were premised on
the openness
off the TMCH database and the ability to review and then
challenge
trademark</b></font></font></font><font color="#333e48"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b> owners
who misuse the Sunrise. SDRPs cannot serve the purpose for
which they
were created if third parties cannot review the TMCH
entries (as
original rules allowed)</b></font></font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#333e48"><font
face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>To
bring a Sunrise Challenge, you need to be able to know the
information registered in the TMCH – just for that
particular mark
– including country of registration, registration number,
registration date, description of good and services – or a
mark
protected by statute or treaty and in what country.</b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Calibri,
sans-serif"><font size="3"><b><font color="#333e48">Accordingly,
a surgical change seems warranted. Allow a party
associated with </font>a
business, organization or individual having the same or
similar name
to the domain name registered during the Sunrise Period [or
an
association or organization representing its members or
affiliates
which include that business, organization or individual with
the same
or similar name], or someone with strong proof of inaccuracy
during
Sunrise registrations, to bring to the Trademark
Clearinghouse a
request for data of a single, specific mark.</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Calibri,
sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>The
submission shall state the mark in question, the
registration domain
name involved, and a good faith reason why the domain name
may not
have been entitled to registration during the Sunrise
Period. The
Clearinghouse will then provide the mark's (or marks')
recordals
including: <font color="#333e48">country of registration,
registration number, registration date, description of
good and
services, or basis of the mark(s) being protected by
statute or
treaty/country. </font></b></font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Calibri,
sans-serif"><font size="3"><b><font color="#333e48">The
TMCH will provided this information within a short period
of time,
e.g., 3 business days, to allow the filer to proceed
forward with a
Sunrise Challenge if warranted (as this is a tight
timeline).</font></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Calibri,
sans-serif"><font size="3"><b><font color="#333e48">Please
reference Individual Proposal #2 for additional fields. </font></b></font></font>
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