[governance] ICANN Trademark Clearinghouse To Start Accepting Registrations This Month

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ye ol mission creep formalised...


    ICANN Trademark Clearinghouse To Start Accepting Registrations This
    Month

Published on 13 March 2013 @ 8:55 pm

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Intellectual Property Watch

By Kelly Burke for /Intellectual Property Watch /

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has 
announced that its Trademark Clearinghouse database, through which 
rights holders can submit their eligible trademarks prior to and during 
ICANN's launch of new domains, will start operating on 26 March.

Any trademark holder, private person, or company can submit their 
trademark, according to the clearinghouse website 
<http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/>. The registry is intended to make 
it easy for rights holders to track potentially infringing 
registrations. ICANN is the domain name system technical oversight body.

The clearinghouse will accept trademarks that are nationally or 
regionally registered trademarks; protected by statue or 
treaty; validated through a court of law or other judicial proceeding; 
or others that constitute intellectual property rights. Full 
clearinghouse guidelines can be found here 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TMCH-guidelines-v1.0-_1.pdf> [pdf].

The verified data in the Trademark Clearinghouse will be used to support 
both sunrise services and trademark claims, according to a clearinghouse 
FAQ page 
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/faqs> 
provided by ICANN. The 30-day sunrise service period allows users an 
"advance opportunity to register domain names corresponding to their 
marks before names are generally available to the public." After the 
sunrise period expires, the claims service will send an automatic 
notification to a trademark holder who has signed up if another user 
applies to register a domain name that directly matches the trademark.

The Trademark Clearinghouse is part of ICANN's new generic top-level 
domain (gTLD) process implemented last year (/IPW/, Information and 
Communications Technology/Broadcasting, 31 January 2012 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/01/31/new-internet-domain-process-off-to-smooth-start-icann-says/>). The 
clearinghouse was intended to address trademark holders' concerns about 
the large expansion of new domains.

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