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The New Generic Top-Level Domains and the New Trademark Clearinghouse: Deciding Whether to Register Your Brands

by Susan Neuberger Weller | Mintz Levin - Intellectual Property on 5/17/2013

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) is the organization that oversees domain names worldwide. It recently began accepting new applications for expanding the number of generic top-level domains...more

Q & A: ICANN's Global Trademark Clearinghouse

by Wendy Robertson, Maia Woodhouse | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 4/5/2013

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body tasked with coordinating and preserving global Internet stability, is embarking on its largest expansion ever of the domain name system. Last week, on...more

Legal Alert: Trademark Clearinghouse and the New gTLDs

by James Johnson, Ian Wasser, Ph.D. | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP on 3/29/2013

The new Generic Top - Level Domain (gTLD) expansion program developed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) includes a Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), which was set to go into effect beginning...more

Trademark Management and the New Generic Top Level Domains

by Thomas Dover | Nossaman LLP on 3/12/2013

Everyone navigates the Internet. It is the new Grand Commons of society – the place for communication, commerce and information. Web sites populate and inform the internet. Every web site has a domain name such as...more

Domain Name Update: Trademark Clearinghouse to Launch in March

by Joshua Jarvis | Foley Hoag LLP - Trademark, Copyright &... on 3/1/2013

As we have discussed at length, over the next couple of years several hundred new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) such as .family, .home, and .toys are expected to be introduced into the domain name system. The...more

Dot Anything: Generic Top-Level Domains Update

by David Byer, Gregory Pieris, Chris Round | K&L Gates LLP on 2/21/2013

On January 12, 2012, ICANN, the authority responsible for management of the internet domain name system, launched the new, expanded, gTLD program, which we reported on here. As implementation moves forward, we want to keep...more

Ron Paul Seeks To Liberate RonPaul.com….From the Hands of Ron Paul Supporters?

by Joshua Jarvis | Foley Hoag LLP - Trademark, Copyright &... on 2/18/2013

Former U.S. Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, polarizing political figure and active member of the Libertarian Party, is no stranger to conflict, or taking full advantage of intellectual property rights to...more

Protecting Your “.trademark”: ICANN Clarifies Procedure for Objecting to New gTLDs

by Kimberly M. Maynard | BakerHostetler on 2/14/2013

It has been almost two years since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it would accept applications for the registration of new generic top level domain names (gTLDs), increasing the...more

ICANN Deadline Fast Approaching for Objections to New Top-Level Domains

by Dena Bouchard, Peter Brody, Mariel Goetz | Ropes & Gray LLP on 2/13/2013

The deadline is fast approaching for third parties to object to any of the nearly 2,000 new generic top-level domains currently under review by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for potential...more

ICANN Publishes Pricing for Trademark Clearinghouse

by Rochelle Alpert, Karen Butcher, Ron Dreben, Dana Gross | Morgan Lewis on 2/6/2013

As ICANN moves toward its expansion of Internet top-level domains, trademark owners should consider strategies to protect their brands. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the...more

It’s a BRAND New World: Update on ICANN’s Expanded gTLD Program

by Judith Harris, Brad Newberg | Reed Smith on 2/5/2013

You have likely heard by now that the Internet is about to get substantially bigger and more complex, with potentially treacherous consequences for brand owners. This past fall, we wrote a chapter covering this issue in...more

ICANN’s domains under attack

by Melanie Howard, Douglas N. Masters | Loeb & Loeb LLP on 1/10/2013

Originally published in the December 2012/January 2013 issue of Intellectual Property Magazine. In the wake of ICANN’s failure earlier this year to dismiss anti-trust allegations arising from the new generic top level...more

Early Warning - These Particular Top Level Domains May Never Get Off the Ground

by Anne Aikman-Scalese | Lewis and Roca LLP on 11/30/2012

This year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") received over 1900 applications for new generic Top Level Domains ("gTLDs"). (A Top Level Domain refers to the string of letters to the right of the...more

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