Timothe Litt’s question “What about non-trademark holders rights?” is central here. As things stand the non-trademark domain name holder is a sitting duck to be picked of, and pushed aside, almost at will by anyone with deep pockets. I have been trying to make sense of the recent WIPO rapid dispute resolution decision whereby the U.S. serial scheme entrepreneur Donald Trump took the domain name trumpcard.com from an individual who had acquired the domain name two years before Donald Trump got a trademark on “trumpcard”, that in a deal involving a Donald Trump branded credit card. The one person dispute resolution panel concluded that the domain site was using Donald Trump’s trademark despite the fact that the term “trumpcard” in its current meaning has been around for 700 years and the domain name registration predated the trademark by two years. As I noted in an earlier posting the U.S. trademark office recently awarded a trademark on the word “Idea”, so if you think you have an idea about this topic, you should call it something else so as to not be in violation of trademark intellectual property rights. Sam L. On 29/04/2015 7:29 PM, Kathy Kleiman wrote: > From: > "Timothe Litt" <[log in to unmask]> > > To: > "Kathy Kleiman" <[log in to unmask]>, "NCSG-Discuss" > <[log in to unmask]> > Cc: > > Sent: > Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:13:12 -0400 > Subject: > Re: Comments on the Draft Rights Protection Mechanism Review paper - > now finishing ICANN Public Comment > > > Kathy, > > No doubt you'll be unsurprised by my reaction But I'll say it anyway. > > What about non-trademark holders rights? -- ------------------------------------------------ "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured in an unjust state" -Confucius ------------------------------------------------ Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar) Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3 email: [log in to unmask] Skype: slanfranco blog: http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852