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New gTLDs: WIPO's Legal Rights Objection Procedure for Trademark Owners

• 03.07.2012 - 16:17 h
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Regardless of whether your organization has applied for a New gTLD, you should pay close attention to what New gTLDs are being applied for to protect your rights and other legitimate interests. Since 13 June 2012, all applied for gTLDs have been published on ICANN’s [New gTLD site]. ICANN also provides the [public sections] of all applications. In particular question 18(a) may be of interest for any evaluation if a TLD may infringe intellectual property rights:

18(a). Describe the mission/purpose of your proposed gTLD.

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Digital Archery Terminated

• 29.06.2012 - 15:03 h
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Digital Archery, ICANN’s solution to assign gTLD application to evaluation batches has been terminated. After numerous critical open letters to ICANN and inconsistent testing results, the procedure was initially suspended on 23 June 2012. Digital Archery would have closed on 28 June. ...click for more

ICANN Starts Batching and Publishes Batching Criteria

• 08.06.2012 - 16:54 h
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Today new gTLD batching has started. ...click for more

ICANN publishes new Applicant Guidebook with cosmetic changes

• 05.06.2012 - 16:17 h
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ICANN has published a new version (4 June 2012) of the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook. A document highlighting the changes from the last version (11 January 2012) has been published as well.

ICANN has primarily updated references to related documents and modified the wording for GAC advice. ...click for more