Another thought on the data front. As I suggested on the call, I wonder if ICANN staff has the technical capacity to take a dozen or so well-known 2 and 3 letter acronyms that are registered as trademarks and therefore eligible for TMCH registration (e.g., GM, HP, LV, UA, IBM, GE), run them against standard dictionaries for major ASCII languages ( at least English, French, Spanish, & German), and provide us with the list of words that if attempted to be registered as domains would generate claims notice under a 'mark contained' approach (e.g., frogman.tld) generates a notice based on GM in the TMCH). I think the results would be quite illuminating as regards the scope of false positive matches that are unrelated to the goods and services associated with the mark. Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal Virtualaw LLC 1155 F Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20004 202-559-8597/Direct 202-559-8750/Fax 202-255-6172/Cell Twitter: @VlawDC "Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey -----Original Message----- From: gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca Tushnet Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 2:35 PM To: gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org Subject: [gnso-rpm-wg] Data on non exact matches Reposting per J. Scott's request on the call: In order to fully evaluate the proposal to extend the match criteria, we really need information on the harm it is supposed to address, including (1) the number of registration attempts that included but were not limited to the text of an entry in the TMCH and (2) the number of such registrations that led to a trademark owner challenge after the fact (therefore excluding URS actions against, for example, typosquatting). To the extent that the proposal becomes more limited to specific goods and services, the evidence of need should be likewise limited. Then, as George K. eloquently explained, we'd also want to see how many attempts/registrations would have been flagged in an expanded match system, to get a sense of the potential for false positives. Rebecca Tushnet Georgetown Law 703 593 6759 _______________________________________________ gnso-rpm-wg mailing list gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-rpm-wg ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.8012 / Virus Database: 4776/14441 - Release Date: 05/06/17 Internal Virus Database is out of date.