[gnso-rpm-wg] A Brave New World Without Sunrises or the TMCH

[Michael Graham (ELCA)]

@Jeremy:  I'm just wondering: Would your concern be addressed if your "fruit selling" registry were established as a closed registry in which only fruit sellers could participate?  Famous marks might still be permitted registration, but at present they do not enjoy that breadth of rights.

Michael R. Graham

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On 13/4/17 8:47 pm, Greg Shatan wrote:
> However, I don't think number 2 qualifies as gaming or abuse -- except 
> to the extent the trademark owner is being gamed or abused. Indeed, 
> one of the failed assumptions of the New gTLD Program seems to have 
> been that trademark owners would buy even more defensive registrations 
> than they did.

So there's nothing wrong with a company that has a trademark for computers sunrise registering that trademark in a gTLD that relates to fruit on the strength of its computer trademark, locking out those who would actually use that domain name to sell fruit?  Sounds like abuse to me.

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