[gnso-rpm-wg] Action Items, Slides and Notes from the Working Group call held earlier today

[George Kirikos]

Some more examples of gaming of the TMCH sunrises, via public blog posts:

1. via Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite.com:

http://domainincite.com/16492-how-one-guy-games-new-gtld-sunrise-periods

DIRECT, CLOUD, and SOCIAL

Note the comments below that blog post by John Berryhill, who wrote "…and
the attorney who was unable to use her client’s US registration for
“PHYSICS” with the inconvenient disclaimer, and who then obtained a late
change in the TMCH rules allowing figurative registrations, so that her
client could use a foreign logo registration to obtain the TMCH entry for
that word… is she an IPC member, Kristina?"

implying that the common term "PHYSICS" might also be gamed, by an IPC
member. And there are other comments by him and others on that page that
are worth reading.

2. via Konstantinos Zournas of OnlineDomain.com:

http://onlinedomain.com/2014/04/15/legal/fake-trademarks-
stealing-generic-domains-in-new-gtld-sunrises/

regarding CLOUD, SOCIAL, BUILD, BET, VACATION, DISCOUNT, WEDDING and others
(...etc.) More than 30 TMs of very common terms are mentioned, and over 300
domains were found by that one blogger. There are 46 comments to that blog
post, too.

I renew the call for a public comment period, so that more of these kinds
of examples of can be submitted to the working group.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
416-588-0269
http://www.leap.com/


On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Rebecca Tushnet <
Rebecca.Tushnet at law.georgetown.edu> wrote:

> When you refuse to say what you would count as evidence of a problem, that
> leaves us with the evidence I, and George, and Bret, and others have
> offered--if we want to call them "Group 2" TMCH registrants that would make
> sense to me.
>
> Rebecca Tushnet
> Georgetown Law
> 703 593 6759
>
>
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