[gnso-rpm-wg] Recommendation for Questions #7 and #16 (Design Mark and Appropriate Balance)

Wed Apr 26 17:59:27 UTC 2017

FIFY.

The sunrise period can allow the owner of (to use Rebecca's example) the PARENTS stylized mark 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 to seize pay to register and maintain the parents.forum domain to the exclusion of someone who wants to run a parenting forum 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.  Call it an exclusive right or whatever you want, (being a DN registrant maybe?) but it goes further than trademark law because we’re talking about a DN.  A rose by any other name... could be rosykids or rosemumsanddads, although I’ve always been partial to lilies myself.

Marie 

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Subject: Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] Recommendation for Questions #7 and #16 (Design Mark and Appropriate Balance)

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. 

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On 4/26/17, 10:46 AM, " <mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org%20on%20behalf%20of%20Jeremy%20Malcolm> gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org on behalf of Jeremy Malcolm" < <mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org%20on%20behalf%20of%20jmalcolm at eff.org> gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org on behalf of jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

    On 26/4/17 10:41 am, Silver, Bradley wrote:

    > 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.

    The sunrise period can allow the owner of (to use Rebecca's example) the

    PARENTS stylized mark to seize the parents.forum domain to the exclusion

    of someone who wants to run a parenting forum.  Call it an exclusive

    right or whatever you want, but it goes further than trademark law.  A

    rose by any other name...

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