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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thank you, Paul – yes, I confirm receipt and staff will compile the text as submitted into the document to be circulated to the Working Group containing all proposals received by the deadline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Mary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">icannlists <icannlists@winston.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 14:11<br>
<b>To: </b>"gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org" <gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Ext] Proposal for Question 8: Geographic Indicators<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">PLEASE NOTE REVISED EMAIL ADDRESS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Dear Fellow RPM Participants:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Below is my proposal for Question 8: Geographic Indicators. Although I am a member of the IPC, this is not a formal IPC proposal. Although it did have some support on the
IPC List, it also had some detractors who wished changes to be made. As such, this should not be viewed as coming from the IPC.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Proposal:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">GIs are not always trademarks. The TMCH is a place to lodge trademarks. Unless a GI is the subject of a national trademark registration, it should not be in the future,
and should not have been in the past, included in the TMCH. For any GIs that are not the subject of a national trademark registration which are currently lodged in the TMCH, such GIs should not be renewed in the TMCH upon expiration. For any GIs that are
currently in the TMCH that are the subject of a national trademark registration, such GIs should be subject to the same use requirements as traditional trademarks as applied to Sunrise registrations. To the extent that there is interest in finding a mechanism
to lodge GIs that are not the subject of national trademark registration for use in as yet unidentified RPMs, study of the concept should be split off from this work and given its own study and thought.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Paul</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">PS: Mary, can you please confirm receipt?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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