Dear all:

I am an intellectual property attorney and partner in a large international law firm (Mayer Brown LLP), and generally divide my time between our New York and Washington DC offices.  My practice primarily focuses on domestic and international trademark law, Internet governance, and domain name matters including both brand protection and advising new gTLD registry operators (including of both .Brand and open generic new gTLDs).  Our firm is an authorized Trademark Clearinghouse agent, and we frequently represent clients in a range of industries on internet related matters, including domain name disputes, such as the UDRP and various ccTLD domain dispute processes.  

I am a member of the ICANN Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC), for which I recently concluded a four year term as a GNSO Councilor, and have previously served as the IPC Treasurer.   I currently also serve on the Board of Directors of the International Trademark Association (INTA), am a member of the project team for the 2016 INTA Annual Meeting, serve as special advisor for INTA’s Internet Committee and previously served four years as co-chair of INTA’s Trademark Administrators Committee Internet Project Team. 

I have authored and co-authored numerous articles in the fields of trademark law, domain name issues, and Internet governance, and speak frequently on these issues.

My full professional biography can be found here, and my ICANN Statement of Interest can be found here.

I very much look forward to working with you all in the context of this Working Group.

Best regards,

Brian

Brian J. Winterfeldt

Co-Head of Global Brand Management and Internet Practice

Mayer Brown LLP

bwinterfeldt@mayerbrown.com

1999 K Street, NW

Washington, DC  20006-1101

202.263.3284 direct dial

202.830.0330 fax

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York  10020-1001

212.506.2345 direct dial

Thank you so much, George, and hello everybody, welcome to the Policy Development Process Working Group that’s been chartered by the GNSO Council to review all the rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) that have been developed for all gTLDs!

Staff will be working with our interim WG chair and Council liaison, Philip Corwin, to set up the first meeting of the Working Group, currently anticipated to be sometime around mid-April. Some of you will have already participated in previous GNSO Working Groups, while others may be less familiar with the procedures and expectations, so staff will also be scheduling a webinar at around the same time to go over the GNSO Policy Development Process (PDP) and the GNSO’s Working Group Guidelines.

In the meantime, given that there are indeed a large number of members and observers to this Working Group, it will be helpful if others follow George’s lead and take the opportunity to introduce yourselves, your expertise and interest in this PDP, to everyone via this email list. As with all GNSO mailing lists, all messages are publicly archived so you will be able to look up others’ (and your own) information and postings.

Finally, if you haven’t already filled in your Statement of Interest - which is one of the few requirements for participation in a GNSO Working Group - we would greatly appreciate it if you can do so at your earliest convenience. Please follow this link to either create a new SOI or update an existing one: https://community.icann.org/x/cYLg.



Thanks and cheers
Mary

Mary Wong
Senior Policy Director
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Email: mary.wong@icann.org
Telephone: +1-603-5744889







On 3/25/16, 12:53, "gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org on behalf of George Kirikos via gnso-rpm-wg" <gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org on behalf of gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org> wrote:

Just to followup on my earlier "introduction" email, it appears that

this working group is up to 129 participants (and counting), see:

 

https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58729950

 

(92 members + 37 observers) It's great to see some familiar names, and

some new ones too.

 

As folks relax over this long holiday weekend, you might want to take

a moment to introduce yourself to your fellow working group

participants with a short email to the list, for what I hope will be a

very productive PDP.

 

Best regards,

 

George Kirikos

416-588-0269

http://www.leap.com/

 

 

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:15 PM, George Kirikos <icann@leap.com> wrote:

Hi folks,

 

(resending the email from this morning, as the mailing list now

appears to be working properly)

 

I've followed ICANN for many years, and am volunteering on this

working group as an independent. My Statement of Interest is at:

 

https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/George+Kirikos+SOI

 

I look forward to a review and reform of RPMs in such a manner that >

the interests of domain name registrants and due process are

understood, represented, and reflected in the final

analysis/recommendations.

 

Sincerely,

 

George Kirikos

416-588-0269

http://www.leap.com/

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