<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Some more examples of gaming of the TMCH sunrises, via public blog posts:<br><br></div>1. via Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite.com:<br><br><a href="http://domainincite.com/16492-how-one-guy-games-new-gtld-sunrise-periods" target="_blank">http://domainincite.com/16492-<wbr>how-one-guy-games-new-gtld-<wbr>sunrise-periods</a><br><br></div>DIRECT, CLOUD, and SOCIAL<br><br></div>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?"<br><br></div>implying that the common term "PHYSICS" might also be gamed, by an IPC member. And there are other comments by him and others on that page that are worth reading.<br><br></div>2. via Konstantinos Zournas of OnlineDomain.com:<br><br><a href="http://onlinedomain.com/2014/04/15/legal/fake-trademarks-stealing-generic-domains-in-new-gtld-sunrises/" target="_blank">http://onlinedomain.com/2014/<wbr>04/15/legal/fake-trademarks-<wbr>stealing-generic-domains-in-<wbr>new-gtld-sunrises/</a><br><br></div>regarding CLOUD, SOCIAL, BUILD, BET, VACATION, DISCOUNT, WEDDING and others (...etc.) More than 30 TMs of very common terms are mentioned, and over 300 domains were found by that one blogger. There are 46 comments to that blog post, too.<br><br></div>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.<br></div><div><br></div>Sincerely,<br><br></div>George Kirikos<br>416-588-0269<br></div><a href="http://www.leap.com/" target="_blank">http://www.leap.com/</a><br><div><div><div><div><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Rebecca Tushnet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rebecca.Tushnet@law.georgetown.edu" target="_blank">Rebecca.Tushnet@law.georgetow<wbr>n.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-7980567875112711512gmail-m_8913510555777842249m_-5488739504802480541gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Rebecca Tushnet<div>Georgetown Law</div><div>703 593 6759</div></div></div></div></span><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>