ICANN Webinar: Trademark Clearinghouse and IDNs - IDN Forums

Avtal · #1 (**permalink**) 21st June 2013, 02:26 AM

On June 19 ICANN held a webinar: Tradmark Clearinghouse and IDNs.

I haven't listened to it; I just skimmed the slides. One interesting excerpt:

Currently about 100 trademark records in the TMCH (Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian,…..)
– Cyrillic: 18
– Japanese: 7
– Chinese: 49
– Arabic: 13
– Hebrew: 2

I didn't see any estimates on how many trademarks ICANN expects to be registered, given current trends. Only certain trademarks in the TMCH are eligible for sunrise; I didn't see any statistics on what percentage of the above trademark records are eligible.

The fewer the better, as far as our interests are concerned.

Avtal

Fka200 · #2 (**permalink**) 21st June 2013, 02:14 PM

Curious to know what those trademarks are. No doubt some will just be regular generic terms.

domainguru · #3 (**permalink**) 22nd June 2013, 05:20 AM

Very happy to know Thais as ever are just completely ignoring TMs

clipper · #4 (**permalink**) 22nd June 2013, 04:50 PM

The list of registered agents has a number of registrars and law firms, one of which has a peculiar tagline: "Domain Names are Intellectual Property."

http://trademark-clearinghouse.com/agents