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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:red'>FIFY.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The sunrise period can allow the owner of (to use Rebecca's example) the PARENTS stylized mark <span style='color:red'>who must have paid to register that as a TM and complied with all of the relevant IPO/legal requirements therefore so, inter alia, don’t want their consumers to be confused </span>to <s><span style='color:red'>seize</span></s><span style='color:red'> pay to register and maintain </span>the parents.forum domain to the exclusion of someone who wants to run a parenting forum <span style='color:red'>with an identical name although they would be free to apply for and register and maintain a forum under an almost infinite number of different strings</span>. Call it an exclusive right or whatever you want, (<span style='color:red'>being a DN registrant maybe?</span>) but it goes further than trademark law <span style='color:red'>because we’re talking about a DN</span>. A rose by any other name... <span style='color:red'>could be rosykids or rosemumsanddads, although I’ve always been partial to lilies myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Marie<span style='color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>-----Original Message-----<br>From: gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of J. Scott Evans via gnso-rpm-wg<br>Sent: mercredi 26 avril 2017 19:50<br>To: Jeremy Malcolm; Silver, Bradley; gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org<br>Subject: Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] Recommendation for Questions #7 and #16 (Design Mark and Appropriate Balance)</span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Over 36,000 registrations in the TMCH. Approximately 130 Sunrise Registrations per new gTLD. I just don’t see the enormous encroachment you are complaining about. Not to mention that Sunrise is limited to exact string. So, cloud.tld doesn’t prevent registration of ihatecloud.tld, clouds.tld, ilovecloud.tld. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>J. Scott Evans<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>408.536.5336 (tel)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>345 Park Avenue, Mail Stop W11-544<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Director, Associate General Counsel<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>408.709.6162 (cell)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>San Jose, CA, 95110, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Adobe. Make It an Experience.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:jsevans@adobe.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>jsevans@adobe.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.adobe.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>www.adobe.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On 4/26/17, 10:46 AM, "<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org%20on%20behalf%20of%20Jeremy%20Malcolm"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org on behalf of Jeremy Malcolm</span></a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org%20on%20behalf%20of%20jmalcolm@eff.org"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org on behalf of jmalcolm@eff.org</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> On 26/4/17 10:41 am, Silver, Bradley wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> > Jeremy - the TMCH does not allow exclusive rights in domains. Having a mark in the TMCH affords nothing close an exclusive right. That's a basic truth which shouldn’t be ignored.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> The sunrise period can allow the owner of (to use Rebecca's example) the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> PARENTS stylized mark to seize the parents.forum domain to the exclusion<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> of someone who wants to run a parenting forum. Call it an exclusive<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> right or whatever you want, but it goes further than trademark law. 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