The group of law professors and practitioners with expertise in trademark law. have written to the Co-Chairs of the ICANN GNSO PDP Working Group on ‘Review of all Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) in all gTLDs’ to express a shared concern about how rights protection mechanisms at ICANN are developing The group states that there is …
The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), designed to protect trademarks in new generic Top Level Domains, launched today (26 March). The TMCH has been developed to be a global repository for trademark data to protect trademarks. As of the launch, rights holders will be able to submit trademark data for verification. The TMCH will enable companies and …
The ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade recently delivered a blisteringly frank assessment of ICANN’s new gTLD program, admitting that if it were up to him he would delay the whole thing by a year. Speaking bluntly, mainly to registries and registrars, at a regional ICANN meeting in Amsterdam this afternoon, Chehade painted a stark picture of …