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<div>A common misconception. The TMCH is a database. Nothing more. It is a database used to facilitate two RPM's: Sunrise and TM Claims.<br>
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On Apr 29, 2017, at 5:28 AM, icannlists <<a href="mailto:icannlists@winston.com">icannlists@winston.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Thanks Jonathan:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Taking each in turn:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in; background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"><span style="">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Take a look at the About section of the TMCH. This is what they write.
<a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trademark-clearinghouse.com%2Fcontent%2Fwhat-trademark-clearinghouse&data=02%7C01%7C%7C27f665f777e1408cbb8408d48efb4902%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636290657292740112&sdata=5ekmo9Yj2mZtdnItpWbR99vl8n%2B88IGDBIF%2B1fSuQ%2B0%3D&reserved=0">
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Marketing materials do not override community consensus. The long and detailed work beginning with the IRT, through the STI,
to the Board, and finally in the AGB make it clear that the TMCH is a database, not an RPM. I can compile my trademarks in a database all day and it won¡¯t do squat on its own. If it could do something on its own, the publicly accessible USPTO database would
have been sufficient and we would not have built the TMCH in the first place.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">And I disagree that the TMCH has to do with
<i><u>carefully selected</u></i> trademarks. That's not correct either. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Well, my clients carefully selected what they put in there. It wasn¡¯t cheap. Perhaps you work with clients who weren¡¯t careful about what they lodged. Perhaps I
misspoke. If you have any good leads on clients with enough money to lodge trademarks in the TMCH with wild abandon, please pass them along!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How so? What else is the TMCH doing except accepting and validating trademarks (carefully or indiscriminately, depending on the client base) lodged by their owners
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Best,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Paul Keating [<a href="mailto:paul@law.es">mailto:paul@law.es</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 29, 2017 4:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jonathan Agmon <<a href="mailto:jonathan.agmon@ip-law.legal">jonathan.agmon@ip-law.legal</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> icannlists <<a href="mailto:icannlists@winston.com">icannlists@winston.com</a>>; claudio di gangi <<a href="mailto:ipcdigangi@gmail.com">ipcdigangi@gmail.com</a>>; Mary Wong <<a href="mailto:mary.wong@icann.org">mary.wong@icann.org</a>>;
<a href="mailto:gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org">gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] Agenda and documents for Working Group call this week</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Since the TMCH is a very important protection rights protection mechanism, available to brand owners, and in most countries of the world, the general view is that GIs are a type of trademarks, I make the following alternative proposal:"</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not to pester a point but when we were arguing to make the TMCH public Or as an alternative to allow this WG to access certain parts of it we were told the opposite. <br>
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On Apr 29, 2017, at 5:36 AM, Jonathan Agmon <<a href="mailto:jonathan.agmon@ip-law.legal">jonathan.agmon@ip-law.legal</a>> wrote:</p>
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