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On 29/4/17 6:32 am, Jonathan Agmon wrote:<br>
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The USPTO is in the US. Perhaps the EPO's and many other
Trademark Offices' positions is also relevant. My point, which
I feel I am not getting through, is that the US positron is
not the only one. Nearly every country on the planet has some
laws relating to GI protection and I am arguing most of them
view them as a form of trademarks. I don't see the reason why
not to include a registered GI in the TMCH. They are after all
trademarks, when registered. Can you help me out here to
understand your objection and the reasons for it? If others
(non US countries) see GIs as trademarks and allow them to be
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Forgive my ignorance, has this discussion happened elsewhere? The
proposition that GIs should be recognized alongside trademarks in
the DNS is surely a far bigger one than the RPMs working group. Not
the kind of thing that we could just slip in as an assumption. I
for one would certainly have a lot more to say about the merits of
recognizing GIs in the DNS, if that were our discussion. But I
doubt it's a discussion for this working group.<br>
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