Very welcome Andy. I'm on vacation this week so haven't fully vetted the rules but seem reasonable at first glance.
I never thought that frontrunning a TLD that had yet to exist would provide any advantage in a LRO.
 
From: Andy Abrams [mailto:abrams@google.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 01:32 PM
To: Phil Corwin
Cc: bc-gnso@icann.org <bc-gnso@icann.org>
Subject: Re: [bc-gnso] New US trademark rules likely to exclude many dot-brand gTLDs | DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion
 
Thanks for sending, Phil.  I think these rules are very reasonable - it's just unfortunate that the prohibitions on front-running and registering generic terms were not incorporated into the LRO guidelines earlier.  It would have saved everyone a lot of time and money.

Andy


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Phil Corwin <psc@vlaw-dc.com> wrote:


http://domainincite.com/14139-new-us-trademark-rules-likely-to-exclude-many-dot-brand-gtlds


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