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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">To follow up on our previous message sent prior to ICANN 55, we wanted to thank all those who reached out and met with the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Independent Review Team to provide
input on this study.</span><span lang="FR" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">We are continuing with outreach and stakeholder discussions, and as part of this work, Analysis Group has developed a questionnaire to assess the opinions of various groups that interact
with either all or some of the TMCH services. Given that feedback from interested stakeholders is extremely valuable to this review, we would greatly appreciate your assistance in helping us promote the TMCH questionnaire. Therefore, it would be fantastic
if you could share the following link (<a href="http://www.analysisgroup.com/icann-trademark-clearinghouse">http://www.analysisgroup.com/icann-trademark-clearinghouse</a>/) via one or more of your communication channels (website, blog, e-mail, bulletin board,
newsletter etc.) and encourage your members to complete the questionnaire.</span><span lang="FR" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">As noted previously, ICANN is conducting an independent review of the TMCH, which was recommended by the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) in 2011 (see
<a href="https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-comments-new-gtlds-26may11-en.pdf">
https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-comments-new-gtlds-26may11-en.pdf</a>). The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the TMCH in combination with the areas that the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) specified for review,
which include: (1) handling of non-exact matches to trademarks, (2) extension of the Trademark Claims notifications, and (3) impacts of the Claims services on the commercial watch services market.</span><span lang="FR" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">This is intended as an informational study to support discussions on related Right Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) activities, such as the work of the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer
Choice Review Team (CCT-RT) and the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) review of all RPMs in all gTLDs Policy Development Process (PDP).</span><span lang="FR" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Thank you again for taking the time to consider our request, and please let us know if you have any questions that we can help address.</span><span lang="FR" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Antonietta Mangiacotti</span></b><span lang="FR" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:antonietta.mangiacotti@icann.org">antonietta.mangiacotti@icann.org</a> </span><span lang="FR" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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