<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>With information like that below, and recognizing that the TMCH sunrise and notice programs were intended to provide a balanced approach:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">1. I fail to see any reason why we should not be allowed to view the database; or</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">2. Treat the failure to be transparent as conclusive evidence that the system is being gamed beyond the balance point, thus justifying revision.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I have seen several emails protesting such transparency but although having asked several times, I have never seen any evidence contradicting the facts noted below, or any legal basis for precluding transparency.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I join George in asking that this issue be opened to the air so to speak and that we push for disclosure of the TMCH database so that we can perform our job to determine if the programs are being abused.<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 10 Apr 2017, at 23:27, Michael Graham (ELCA) <<a href="mailto:migraham@expedia.com">migraham@expedia.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Again, apologies for coming into this conversation late, but could you clarify what you meaning by the term “gaming”?
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in order to register the registration in the TMCH, or (2) the fabrication of evidence of Use and its submission to the TMCH in order to entitle one to Sunrise registration.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <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> Monday, April 10, 2017 2:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] Action Items, Slides and Notes from the Working Group call held earlier today<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">1. via Kevin Murphy of <a href="http://DomainIncite.com">DomainIncite.com</a>:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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?"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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