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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>+1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=ES-AR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Héctor Ariel Manoff</span></b><span lang=ES-AR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><b>Vitale, Manoff & Feilbogen<br></b>Viamonte 1145 10º Piso<br>C1053ABW Buenos Aires<br>República Argentina<br>Te: (54-11) 4371-6100<br>Fax: (54-11) 4371-6365<br>E-mail: </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><a href="mailto:amanoff@vmf.com.ar"><span lang=ES-AR style='color:#4F81BD'>amanoff@vmf.com.ar</span></a></span><span lang=ES-AR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Web: </span><span lang=ES-AR style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><a href="http://www.vmf.com.ar/"><span style='color:#4F81BD'>http://www.vmf.com.ar</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org] <b>En nombre de </b>Marina Lewis<br><b>Enviado el:</b> viernes, 14 de abril de 2017 14:24<br><b>Para:</b> Jeremy Malcolm; gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org<br><b>Asunto:</b> Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] A Brave New World Without Sunrises or the TMCH<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Jeremy,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Except that real life doesn't pan out like that. In my experience as a trademark practitioner, my clients are not interested in gobbling up domain names for registration's sake - and absorbing the administrative and financial headaches that this entails. Rather, most brand owners are primarily concerned with stopping the registration of domains names that genuinely cause confusion with consumers, or which pose a potential threat to consumer and public safety (e.g., phishing, malware, etc.). A domain name registration along the lines you suggest below simply does not reflect that business reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>That said, I am not so naïve to suppose that this <i>never</i> happens by a trademark owner acting in bad faith, but I am not aware of any evidence to suggest this is the norm. Moreover, the greater threat are the instances where domain investors/resellers/scalpers (choose your preferred terminology) register domain names which <i>they</i> have no bona fide interest in using, apart from reselling it at a profit to a party interested in using it for legitimate purposes – aka, a brand owner. This is exactly the type of “abuse” the TMCH was designed to prevent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Marina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <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>] On Behalf Of Jeremy Malcolm<br>Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 10:12 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] A Brave New World Without Sunrises or the TMCH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>On 13/4/17 8:47 pm, Greg Shatan wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>> However, I don't think number 2 qualifies as gaming or abuse -- except <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>> to the extent the trademark owner is being gamed or abused. Indeed, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>> one of the failed assumptions of the New gTLD Program seems to have <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>> been that trademark owners would buy even more defensive registrations <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>> than they did.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>So there's nothing wrong with a company that has a trademark for computers sunrise registering that trademark in a gTLD that relates to fruit on the strength of its computer trademark, locking out those who would actually use that domain name to sell fruit? Sounds like abuse to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Jeremy Malcolm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Senior Global Policy Analyst<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Electronic Frontier Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://eff.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>https://eff.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>jmalcolm@eff.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>:: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World ::<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Public key: <a href="https://www.eff.org/files/2016/11/27/key_jmalcolm.txt"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>https://www.eff.org/files/2016/11/27/key_jmalcolm.txt</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>PGP fingerprint: 75D2 4C0D 35EA EA2F 8CA8 8F79 4911 EC4A EDDF 1122<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>