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Take a look at the About section of the TMCH. This is what they write. http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/content/what-trademark-clearinghouse</div>
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And I disagree that the TMCH has to do with <i><u>carefully selected</u></i> trademarks. That's not correct either. </div>
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And the word <i>nothing more</i> is also incorrect. </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">I have to agree with Paul K. here. The TMCH is not a rights protection mechanism. It is a database containing carefully selected trademark records as lodged
by their owners. Nothing more.</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 [mailto:paul@law.es]
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 29, 2017 4:35 AM<br>
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<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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