I think John has made it very clear. "Those are patent applications, not patents. There is a large and important difference." Patents are all public. Hong ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Seth Reiss (Confluence) <no-reply@icann.org> Date: Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:28 AM Subject: [community] ALAC > Letter Regarding Registry SG DIDT on TMCH To: hongxueipr@gmail.com Seth Reiss <https://community.icann.org/display/~seth.reiss> added a comment to the page: *Letter Regarding Registry SG DIDT on TMCH* <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Letter+Regarding+Registry+SG+DID...> "subsistence or exercise" is not common IP legal language. I assume "subsidence" would mean that IP rights reside in certain material whether or not the rights are being exploited, and "exercise" would be the exploitation of the rights, but that is just a guess. Typically, pending patent applications are secret for 18 months from a first priority date. Copyrights could be confidential in unpublished material. Trademarks rights could never be secret. View Online<https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Letter+Regarding+Registry+SG+DID...> · Like<https://community.icann.org/plugins/likes/like.action?contentId=37193719> · Reply To This<https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Letter+Regarding+Registry+SG+DID...> Stop watching page<https://community.icann.org/users/removepagenotification.action?pageId=37193...> · Manage Notifications<https://community.icann.org/users/editmyemailsettings.action> This message was sent by Atlassian Confluence <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence> 4.3.1, the Enterprise Wiki <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/tour/enterprise-wiki.jsp> -- Professor Dr. Hong Xue Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) Beijing Normal University http://www.iipl.org.cn/ 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street Beijing 100875 China