[Tmch-iag] Trademark Clearinghouse IAG - Issue T1
Tom Barrett
tbarrett at encirca.com
Wed Jan 25 16:45:42 UTC 2012
Marc,
I agree. The TMCH should be able to scale and meet the non-stop demands of
thousands of registries and registrars without breaking a sweat. But there
should also be contingencies to address the worst-case scenarios.
The approach of a simple DNS-type query system would satisfy this
requirement (see my comments from December 12). The only data (if any) that
should be distributed is the list of registrable strings that needs to be
checked for trademark claims. Owners do not need to be included in this
list. There is no need to replicate any other data to registries.
The retrieval of claims notices to registrants, which represent a fraction
of the volume of claims-related queries, can be managed by the TMCH in a
secure manner that avoids the potential of abuse that has been discussed
while still ensuring non-stop performance.
Tom Barrett
EnCirca
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Jeff,
As you point out, there a single point of failure inherent in every TLD -
the registry. If strategies are being created to ensure that the registries
don't go down, can't we just apply the same strategies to the TMCH? How is
this any different?
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Subject: Re: [Tmch-iag] Trademark Clearinghouse IAG - Issue T1
Michael,
Your perspective is one of an intellectual Property owner and I completely
respect that. But to be fair, if registries have to rely on the
Clearinghouse to display all notices for IP Claims and to certify to the
Registries that the notice was displayed and the registrant only proceeded
after being shown the IP Claims notice, then that too creates the one single
point of failure. If the registries/registrars do not have the information,
then they cannot display the claims notices. All of that may be fine, but I
want to know what assurances there will be that the Clearinghouse will
literally never go down and what repercussions there will be if the
Clearinghouse does go down.
There has been so much emphasis in the new gTLD process about registries
never going down. Emergency providers being established to ensure the
registrant is not affected. Countless pages of technical documentation
being required to ensure there is never a single point of failure. Yet now,
we are saying we are fine with that because of fear that one brand will
learn another brand's protection strategy. Again, this may be ok, and I am
not judging that.
But lets call it what it is..the creation of a single point of failure. If
we are fine with that, let's move on and figure out how we can ensure that
that single point of failure will never go down.
Best regards,
Jeffrey J. Neuman
Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Business Affairs
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>From my perspective, all that is required for registries is that they have
the most basic of information, namely, the existence of a validated right
and the validated right's owner. What will not be needed by registries is
an in-depth detailed set of information regarding all brands, classes
claimed, countries of registration etc. Unless my understanding is
mistaken, it does not seem to me that registries have a need for the
information they are advocating to receive. Please let me know if I am
missing something. Thanks.
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>From a registry perspective, if we decide to centralize all of the data in
one place, as is being advocated, we run a substantial risk of affecting the
real time registration process and we create a single point of failure. If
that Clearinghouse were to ever go down (or even take a scheduled
maintenance), then each registry that is relying on the Clearinghouse for
real time IP Claims or real time Sunrise will also go down. Registrations
may be tied up in queues or not accepted at all. Customer support inquiries
to both the registries and registrars will be a nightmare to say the least.
Who will compensate the registries and registrars for lost revenue as a
result?
Question to the IP Owners: If I really wanted information on my competitors
and the brand protection strategy, cant I just go to a Thomson and Thomson
or any trademark watch service and order a search on my competitors. In
other words, I believe now I am free to go to one of these search firms and
demand search results on any third party to find out their brand protection
strategy. So, as Microsoft, couldn't I order a service from Thomson and
Thomson or CSC to search all of the filings of Google and alert me when new
registrations come in? How would this be different?
And if there is still a concern, couldn't we create a code of conduct which
forbids the disclosure of such data or separates the duties out whereby
anyone working on the registry cannot share that information with others
even within their own corporation.
There are tradeoffs here that need to be considered.
Jeffrey J. Neuman
Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Business Affairs
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Subject: Re: [Tmch-iag] Trademark Clearinghouse IAG - Issue T1
The question that I have here is do the IP lawyers here who agree with
Brian's original comments believe that the full service can be completed by
registries and registrars with limited data?
Or are you willing to accept a possible lower standard to protect the full
portfolio of marks?
Just to be clear I am not advocating one way or another here, just want to
know if there are trade offs being made here and if there are trade offs are
people willing to accept them.
Jeff
On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:32 PM, "icann at rodenbaugh.com" <icann at rodenbaugh.com>
wrote:
Agreed. The Clearinghouse, or any substantial part of it, should only be
mirrored in a finite number of places, solely for purposes of bandwidth and
redundancy. Queries can be made against any of the mirrored databases in
real time, as needed. Is someone making an argument for more than this?
Mike Rodenbaugh
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I also concur with Brian's well-articulated reasoning.
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I agree fully with Brian's comments.
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Subject: [Tmch-iag] Trademark Clearinghouse IAG - Issue T1
Dear Trademark Clearinghouse IAG,
In response to recent comments on the T1 Issue, I continue to have
reservations against having the Trademark Clearinghouse supply of all of the
listed trademarks and their full information to registries and registrars in
bulk. While we fully acknowledge that trademark claims notices will provide
information about a specific mark and so will become somewhat public, the
receiver of this information (here, the prospective domain name registrant)
will be limited, as will the information provided (i.e., not all listed
marks). Moreover, most .BRAND registries will not likely have many
third-party claims notices to send. Accordingly, there again is no need for
registries and registrars to receive trademark owners' entire trademark
portfolios collected and compiled in one place.
To reiterate, intellectual property owners are concerned that their
competitor registries and registrars will obtain their entire trademark
portfolios with the ability to quickly and easily sift through this
information to easily discern the holder's brand protection strategy for its
marks in not only a comprehensive way, but on a more specific
jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction and even a mark-by-mark basis. This could
potentially jeopardize a trademark holder's entire portfolio. We understand
that the registries believe that they can implement tracking metrics such as
those currently in use with WHOIS lookup to determine if registrants are
attempting to mine Clearinghouse data to gain a competitive advantage, but
we still feel the brand protection risks far outweigh any gains in adopting
such a measure. Without a demonstrable need for registries and registrars
to obtain all of this information, I again recommend that full trademark
information should remain at the Clearinghouse, with information provided on
a limited, need-to-know basis, namely, full trademark information about the
mark at issue to potential domain name registrants who attempt to register
an exact match, and only a yes or no answer to a registrar or registry in
response to an exact match query.
Thank you,
Brian
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