Nov. 3, 2016
8:51 a.m.
At 02/11/2016 09:58 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
That is exactly the position of GNSO - there are already protection mechanisms in place for intellectual property protection in the procedures. Somehow some IGO's just seem to want to be special.
Unless I've missed something, the TMCH et al are for trademarks. IGO names typically aren't trademarks.
Correct, but there has been a realization that the process that was set up for TMs can be useful in the protection of other non-TM character strings. Alan