I have to agree with Paul K. here.  The TMCH is not a rights protection mechanism.  It is a database containing carefully selected trademark records as lodged by their owners.  Nothing more.

 

Best,

Paul

 

 

From: Paul Keating [mailto:paul@law.es]
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 4:35 AM
To: Jonathan Agmon <jonathan.agmon@ip-law.legal>
Cc: icannlists <icannlists@winston.com>; claudio di gangi <ipcdigangi@gmail.com>; Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org>; gnso-rpm-wg@icann.org
Subject: Re: [gnso-rpm-wg] Agenda and documents for Working Group call this week

 

Jonathan wrote:  

 

"Since the TMCH is a very important protection rights protection mechanism, available to brand owners, and in most countries of the world, the general view is that GIs are a type of trademarks, I make the following alternative proposal:"

 

 

Prk comment.     

 

Not to pester a point but when we were arguing to make the TMCH public Or as an alternative to allow this WG to access certain parts of it we were told the opposite. 

Sincerely,

Paul Keating, Esq.


On Apr 29, 2017, at 5:36 AM, Jonathan Agmon <jonathan.agmon@ip-law.legal> wrote:

Since the TMCH is a very important protection rights protection mechanism, available to brand owners, and in most countries of the world, the general view is that GIs are a type of trademarks, I make the following alternative proposal:


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