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Hi All,<br>
Wendy Seltzer and I had a meeting with the Trademark Clearinghouse
Independent Review Team (a fancy name for one person) in Marrakech
and raised issues of concern, including: <br>
<br>
- current over-expansion of the Trademark Clearinghouse (it is
accepting applications it should not), <br>
- current abuse of the Trademark Notice process (it should never
become permanent or there will be a permanent "chilling effect" on
registrants; the compromise and balance was a "short-term Trademark
Notice" -- never an agreement for permanent), and <br>
- never-ending pressure to extend the Trademark Clearinghouse and
Trademark Notice to "legacy gTLDs" of .com, .org, .net -- despite
that these mechanisms were specially created only for the New gTLDs
and there is no reason or rationale to extend them (and such an
extension would come with huge costs to speech and fair use). <br>
<br>
<i>But we also told him that others in NCSG might want to meet with
him. Do you have issues/concerns - should we meet with him
together? Feel free to write to me privately or publicly and
we'll organize a group as needed... <br>
<br>
</i>Best,<br>
Kathy<br>
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<td>[NCSG-Discuss] FW: TMCH Independent Review Questionnaire
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<td>Tue, 5 Apr 2016 13:59:40 +0000</td>
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<td>Maryam Bakoshi <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:maryam.bakoshi@ICANN.ORG"><maryam.bakoshi@ICANN.ORG></a></td>
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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
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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
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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 style="color:black"
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noted previously, ICANN is conducting an independent
review of the TMCH, which was recommended by the
Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) in 2011 (see
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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 style="color:black"
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Review Team (CCT-RT) and the Generic Names
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