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<p class="MsoNormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My name is Jeff Neuman and I am Senior Vice President for both Valideus USA and Com Laude USA. As Susan Payne explained, Valideus provides new gTLD consultancy and registry management services to prospective and existing new gTLD registry
operators and have advised clients on the implementation of the RPMs as part of their ICANN compliance obligations. Com Laude is a corporate registrar which provides domain name management and online brand management services to businesses, and acts as an
official Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) agent.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">For those of you who don’t know me, I am an Intellectual Property lawyer by training and have been actively involved in domain name / cyberspace law for the past twenty years. I, like several others in this group, participated
in the original working groups in the late 1990s that established the original UDRP. I was also one of the originators of the original Sunrise proposals used by the “new TLDs” back in the 2000 round and was the creator of the Intellectual Property Claims
process (now called Trademark Claims) which was first utilized by .BIZ. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I have participated actively in each of the new gTLD rounds to date. Prior to working at my present company, Valideus/Com Laude, I worked at Neustar for close to 15 years in the Registry Services organization both on
the legal and policy side. Through that work, I participated in the application, administration and operation of the .BIZ top-level domain in 2000, as well as the application and implementation processes for the back-end operation of several sponsored TLDs
in the 2005 round and hundreds of new gTLDs in the 2012 round. </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">With respect to the latest round of new gTLDs, I have been very active serving on numerous GNSO subcommittees since 2005, including those that initially established the program. In addition, I served as the exclusive
registry stakeholder group member on the Implementation Review Team (IRT) to recommend Rights Protection Mechanisms for the new gTLD Program to the ICANN Board as well as the GNSO’s STI Group to devise implementation mechanisms for those Rights Protection
mechanisms. Further, I also helped lead a small group to ensure that the Trademark Clearinghouse was implemented in a centralized (vs. decentralized) manner. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">My Statement of Interest can be found <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Jeff+Neuman+SOI">
here</a>. </span>I am also serving as one of the Co-Chairs of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group and am very interested in the outcomes here.
<span lang="EN-AU"> I am currently a voting member of the Registrars Stakeholder group and participate on behalf of a number of brand clients in the Registries Stakeholder Group and the Intellectual Property Constituency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I look forward to working with you all.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0F9347">Jeffrey J. Neuman</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0F9347">Senior Vice President </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">|</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#C39209">Valideus
USA</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#C32830">
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">| </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#C32830">Com Laude USA</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">1751 Pinnacle Drive, Suite 600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">Mclean, VA 22102, United States<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">E:
</span><a href="mailto:jeff.neuman@valideus.com"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#00B050">jeff.neuman@valideus.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#595959">
or </span><a href="mailto:jeff.neuman@comlaude.com"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#00B050">jeff.neuman@comlaude.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#00B050">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">T: +1.703.635.7514<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">M: +1.202.549.5079<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">@Jintlaw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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