On 26/4/17 10:41 am, Silver, Bradley wrote:
Jeremy - the TMCH does not allow exclusive rights in domains. Having a mark in the TMCH affords nothing close an exclusive right. That's a basic truth which shouldn’t be ignored.
The sunrise period can allow the owner of (to use Rebecca's example) the PARENTS stylized mark to seize the parents.forum domain to the exclusion of someone who wants to run a parenting forum. Call it an exclusive right or whatever you want, but it goes further than trademark law. A rose by any other name... -- Jeremy Malcolm Senior Global Policy Analyst Electronic Frontier Foundation https://eff.org jmalcolm@eff.org Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161 :: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World :: Public key: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/11/27/key_jmalcolm.txt PGP fingerprint: 75D2 4C0D 35EA EA2F 8CA8 8F79 4911 EC4A EDDF 1122