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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">&quot;Luck is the residue of design&quot; -- Branch Rickey</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Lori Schulman [mailto:lschulman@inta.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 02, 2017 2:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Phil Corwin; George Kirikos; gnso-rpm-wg<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [gnso-rpm-wg] TMCH Blog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Phil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Good points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Lori<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#595959">Lori S. Schulman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#595959">International Trademark Association (INTA)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Phil Corwin [<a href="mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com">mailto:psc@vlaw-dc.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 02, 2017 2:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lori Schulman &lt;<a href="mailto:lschulman@inta.org">lschulman@inta.org</a>&gt;; George Kirikos &lt;<a href="mailto:icann@leap.com">icann@leap.com</a>&gt;; gnso-rpm-wg &lt;<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org</a>&gt;<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [gnso-rpm-wg] TMCH Blog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">All that follows is personal and not in my role as a co-chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Let me say that I am a member of INTA’s Internet Committee who has contributed quite a lot to its work since being honored with a request to join it three years
 ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">That said, I cannot fully agree with statement that “domain names are licensed assets with no inherent vested rights” to the extent that domain registrants
 do have rights and those rights are often found in trademark law. For example, the US Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act has been successfully used by domain registrants to appeal erroneous UDRP decisions and maintain their ownership of valuable domains
 while reversing an initial finding of cybersquatting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">My view is that trademarks and domains both constitute different classes of valuable intangible assets. The difference is that trademarks have the advantage
 of being recognized in commercial law for a long period of years, while domains have only been used commercially for two decades and hence their legal framework is far less developed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">So far as lower erring the cost of the UDRP, that can certainly be looked at in phase 2 of the WG’s efforts when we reach the UDRP but I am doubtful that we
 can get below the $1500 threshold that seems to be the low bar to cover DRP administrative costs and the time of a single expert panelist. The URS sets a lower bar of around $500 because it is restricted to black-and-white, slam dunk cases of blatantly obvious
 infringement and the WG will be considering whether to recommend if it should become Consensus Policy and thereby available at legacy gTLDs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Both the UDRP and URS baseline costs are far below those of TM litigation and I can’t imagine the WG recommending that TM owners should be forced into court.
 But I am dubious that it’s feasible to lower UDRP costs and still have an RPM that is credible in its administration and results concerning shades of grey cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:navy">&quot;Luck is the residue of design&quot; -- Branch Rickey</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org">mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lori Schulman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 02, 2017 1:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> George Kirikos; gnso-rpm-wg<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] TMCH Blog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Recognition of the importance of protecting trademark rights in the DNS has been essential to ICANN’s policymaking since before ICANN was organized.&nbsp;&nbsp; Per J Scott’s note,
 trademark rights are government granted rights.&nbsp; Domain names are not.&nbsp; While some domain names can function as trademarks in the legal sense of the word, domain names are licensed assets with no inherent vested rights.&nbsp; This makes them fundamentally different
 than trademarks.&nbsp; The difference creates the tensions that we see when discussing how trademark rights should be addressed/recognized within the domain system.&nbsp; The UDRP/URS were designed to keep costs down for both sides of a domain dispute as the administrative
 process contemplated is much less expensive and onerous than a court driven process.&nbsp; Having managed very large and very small portfolios of trademarks and domains throughout my career, I can tell you that this is empirically true no matter the size of the
 business either as a plaintiff or defendant in a dispute.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Forcing trademark owners into court will force domain registrants there too and in much higher number than we see today.&nbsp;&nbsp; The UDRP is a reasonable alternative to what would otherwise be an endless
 stream of lawsuits overloading already burdened court systems.&nbsp; The use issue forms the fundamental core of trademark protection and different jurisdictions have different standards for when use must be demonstrated and what qualifies as good use.&nbsp; This requires
 deep expertise and knowledge of trademark law.&nbsp; If we were to create some kind of &nbsp;use test in the TMCH beyond what is already there, costs would significantly increase as you would need essentially a trademark office-like system for review and dispute resolution.&nbsp;
 In terms of gaming the system, so far, I have seen much more gaming by investors than I have seen by brands…as brands have been targeted by the investors in very well publicized instances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 organization who are continually victimized by cyber squatters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org">mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>George Kirikos<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 02, 2017 1:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gnso-rpm-wg &lt;<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org</a>&gt;<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] TMCH Blog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hello,<br>
<br>
(and trying to combine multiple responses in one email)<br>
<br>
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:51 PM, &lt;<a href="mailto:trachtenbergm@gtlaw.com%3e">trachtenbergm@gtlaw.com&gt;</a> wrote:<br>
&gt; I think you are trying to apply domain speculation thinking where it is all about monetary value to protection of trademark rights, which is not necessary focused or valued in terms of specific monetary value. They are not the same thing.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; If life isn’t fair is an acceptable justification then why change the current system because it is not fair that some may have gamed it by using trademark registrations obtained solely for the purpose of registering valuable domain names during sunrise? You
 can’t have it both ways.<br>
<br>
1. The &quot;domain speculation thinking&quot; is your term for what is simply<br>
rational economic decision-making. Even for trademark protection,<br>
rational trademark holders prioritize enforcement based on a<br>
comparison between the economic benefit of stopping the abuse relative<br>
to the economic cost of that enforcement.<br>
<br>
2. The &quot;life isn't fair&quot; in my statement was referencing the fact that<br>
not everyone has the same wealth. That is entirely different from<br>
those misusing trademark registrations obtained solely for the purpose<br>
of registering valuable domain names -- those TMs would be invalid in<br>
jurisdictions requiring use (and thus shouldn't have been granted in<br>
the first place).<br>
<br>
3. Some folks continue to dance around the issue, and ignore the<br>
economics completely. Each and every time you try to add a wrinkle to<br>
the procedure (i.e. &quot;tweaks&quot; that seek to give better proof of use, or<br>
other modifications), all that does is slightly change the &quot;costs&quot; for<br>
some actors, but doesn't change the underlying economics by much. i.e.<br>
it attempts to impose a &quot;price&quot; indirectly, rather than explicitly and<br>
directly setting a price that would actually change behaviour.<br>
<br>
4. For those saying &quot;small&quot; trademark holders would be affected ---<br>
fine, change the economics accordingly --- should the quota be 10,000<br>
marks? Should the cost be $1? Once you make the cost explicitly be $1,<br>
that just says &quot;Fine, we're going to accept all the gaming behaviour,<br>
because we're prepared to look the other way!&quot; That's an invitation to<br>
those who are misusing the sunrise periods to continue doing what<br>
they're doing.<br>
<br>
While some constituencies in the GNSO might be fine with that balance<br>
(i.e. accept every TM, and allow all kinds of abuse of the sunrise<br>
periods), other constituencies might draw the line for that balance<br>
elsewhere.<br>
<br>
5. Let me give you an example -- ACPA allows damages of up to $100,000<br>
for cybersquatting. That's an explicit cost on cybersquatters that<br>
they take into account, and has a deterrent effect. What if that limit<br>
instead was $500? Behaviour would obviously change accordingly,<br>
because cybersquatters are rational.<br>
<br>
6. A further example -- it costs $1000&#43; to file a UDRP (on top of<br>
legal costs, so a number like $5000 might be more relevant for those<br>
who use lawyers). If the total costs were $300, there would be a lot<br>
more filings (which would reduce the benefits of cybersquatting, and<br>
thus change the economics of abuse).<br>
<br>
In conclusion, the economics of all the actors are paramount, and seem<br>
to be mostly ignored. By focusing on those economics directly, as<br>
policymakers we can precision-target the policies to directly target<br>
those behaviours, and reduce all the &quot;collateral damage&quot; on the<br>
innocent actors.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
George Kirikos<br>
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