Brand Owners Write To Dept Of Commerce: Want No Cost URS, Loser Pays Model, TM Blocks & More

Brand Owners Write To Dept Of Commerce: Want No Cost URS, Loser Pays Model, TM Blocks & More

If the Respondent (registrant) does not respond, the brand owner should pay only an administrative fee and not the fee required in a contested proceeding where a panel is appointed; and The URS must operate on a low- or no-cost basis, which ICANN should subsidize if necessary.Recidivist bad actors should be tracked via a list of common Respondents and that list should be published and publicly available. The undersigned United States industry groups jointly signing this letter recognize and acknowledge the many other industry group members and private practitioners who collectively contributed to and endorse these recommendations. We sincerely appreciate your attention to these recommendations to ensure and improve brand owner protections in connection with ICANN’s new generic top-level domain program. From a concerted U.S. brand owner perspective, although these recommend...

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