[gnso-rpm-wg] Inferences (was Re: Mp3, Attendance, AC recording & AC Chat Review of all Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) PDP Working Group)

George Kirikos icann at leap.com
Thu Jul 13 14:43:43 UTC 2017


Hi folks,

In addition to the blog posts mentioned by Jon Nevett:

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Jon Nevett <jon at donuts.email> wrote:
> https://www.thedomains.com/2017/02/01/the-trademark-clearinghouse-worked-so-well-one-company-got-24-new-gtld-using-the-famous-trademark-the/
>
> https://www.thedomains.com/2014/03/22/tmch-has-plenty-of-trademarks-of-generic-words/

there was also a good article by DomainNameWire:

http://domainnamewire.com/2014/02/10/how-common-words-like-pizza-money-and-shopping-ended-up-in-the-trademark-clearinghouse-for-new-tlds/

which had a small spreadsheet of common terms that appear in the TMCH.
Indeed, registry operators like Uniregistry would not have had to
adopt "anti-gaming" provisions (not allowing sunrise registrations to
be transferred to other entities, unless the entity itself was sold;
see the DNW article above) unless there was widespread abuse of the
TMCH.

In other words, why are there "counter-measures" like that (including
holding back names by the registry) unless the TMCH was widely being
abused? The fact these counter-measures exist are inconsistent with
the position of Georges Nahitchevansky that there's no foundation at
all for abusive and overreaching TMCH recordals.

Sincerely,

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


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