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Brand Owners Brace for New gTLDs

Managing Intellectual Property
October 30, 2009

Related Professionals: Gelchinsky, Jonathan M., Kelly, David M.

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Managing Intellectual Property, in association with Finnegan, hosted a discussion regarding ICANN’s approved plans to open the domain name system to an unlimited number of generic top-level domains and how the Implementation Recommendation Team’s (IRT) recommendation will affect brand owners.

Topics included the main concerns with new gTLDs from a brand owner’s perspective, the role of IRT, enforcement issues, and navigating the new domain name space. Finnegan partners David Kelly and Jonathan Gelchinsky participated with J Scott Evans of Yahoo! Inc., Elisabeth Roth Escobar of Marriott International, Inc., Erik Wilbers of WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, and Kurt Pritz of ICANN for the roundtable.

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