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Dear Fellow RPM Participants:

 

Below is my proposal for Question 8: Geographic Indicators.  Although I am a member of the IPC, this is not a formal IPC proposal. Although it did have some support on the IPC List, it also had some detractors who wished changes to be made.  As such, this should not be viewed as coming from the IPC.

 

 

Proposal:

 

GIs are not always trademarks.  The TMCH is a place to lodge trademarks.  Unless a GI is the subject of a national trademark registration, it should not be in the future, and should not have been in the past, included in the TMCH.  For any GIs that are not the subject of a national trademark registration which are currently lodged in the TMCH, such GIs should not be renewed in the TMCH upon expiration.  For any GIs that are currently in the TMCH that are the subject of a national trademark registration, such GIs should be subject to the same use requirements as traditional trademarks as applied to Sunrise registrations.  To the extent that there is interest in finding a mechanism to lodge GIs that are not the subject of national trademark registration for use in as yet unidentified RPMs, study of the concept should be split off from this work and given its own study and thought.

 

 

Best,

Paul

 

 

Paul D. McGrady Jr.

ICANNLISTS@winston.com

 

PS: Mary, can you please confirm receipt?

 

 


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