[council] Public Comment: STI Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs

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Public Comment: STI Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs

17 December 2009
The Special Trademarks Issues Working Team (STI) has published its Report on
its recommendations to create a Trademark Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid
Suspension procedure to protect trademarks in the New GTLD Program. The
public comment period ends on 26 January 2010. 
http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201001.htm#sti

Special Trademark Issues Review Team Recommendations [PDF, 272K]
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/sti/sti-wt-recommendations-11dec09-en.pdf

You can also find this report at http://gnso.icann.org/issues/. 

Background 

On 12 October 2009, the ICANN Board sent a letter [PDF, 736K] to the GNSO
requesting its review of the policy implications of certain trademark
protection mechanisms proposed for the New gTLD Program, as described in the
Draft Applicant Guidebook
(http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-clean-04oct09-en.pdf
[PDF, 198K]) and accompanying memoranda. Specifically, the Board Letter
requested that the GNSO provide input on whether it approves the proposed
staff model , or, in the alternative, the GNSO could propose an alternative
that is equivalent or more effective and implementable. 

In response, t he GNSO adopted a resolution creating the Special Trademarks
Issues review team (STI) on 28 October 2009, which included representatives
from each Stakeholder Group ; At-Large; Nominating Committee Appointees; and
the Government Advisory Committee, to analyze the specific rights protection
mechanisms that have been proposed for inclusion in the Draft Applicant
Guidebook. The STI delivered to the GNSO Council its Report [PDF, 272K],
which describes an alternative model that the STI believes is more effective
and implementable than the model proposed in the Draft Applicant Guidebook
version 3. The GNSO Council unanimously approved the recommendations
contained in the STI Report for public comment and consideration by ICANN
when it finalizes the proposed model for trademark protection in the New
gTLD Program. 

For additional information on the new gTLD Program:
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/related-en.htm.

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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