Comments on: Front Running On Proposed g’TLD’s: Companies Are Getting Trademarks On g’TLD’s

By: cartoonz

cartoonz — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:15:49 +0000

I think JB did a writeup once on all the ICANN insiders’ attempts to TM the single letter .com names in anticipation of their eventual release.

Disgraceful, at best.

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By: jp

jp — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:36:00 +0000

I was under the impression that you cannot be granted a TM without supplying a specimen to the USPTO. They must have all just applied with an “Intent To Use”. I’m not sure that these Intent To Use applications mean anything. If someone else actually gets the .tld instead of the Intent To Use applicant I don’t believe you can use the Intent To Use as legal recourse to get the .tld. Furthermore if someone else gets the .tld, its going to be hard for the Intent To Use applicant to supply a specimen.

By: MHB

MHB — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:24:10 +0000

Andrew

Thanks for the link to Mr. Couvering’s response.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:54:31 +0000

Michael, the company he’s referring to is parent company of Mind + Machines. You can see their CEO Antony Van Couvering’s response here:

http://domainnamewire.com/2009/06/29/companies-file-trademarks-for-new-top-level-domain-names/