Matthias,
The
point of the IP Claim process, rather than a Sunrise, was to allow people to
make claims to certain domain names based on their ownership or alleged
ownership of trademark rights (whether registered or common law) and for
notification of such rights to be sent to all applicants for that particular
domain name. The beauty of the process is that if someone submits
information which you do not believe is correct, or you believe that you have
equal rights to the domain name in question, the applicant can ignore the claim
and proceed anyway.
This
process is much more in line with existing trademark law around the world than
any sunrise process. As long as the applicant is actually made aware of
the existing claims on a particular domain name and chooses to proceed anyway,
then the system has worked exactly as planned. Then, if there is an
applicant that has proceeded despite being notified of another's rights, and
that applicant does not have any rights to the name, that applicant (if selected
as a registrant) has been put on notice that he or he may be subject of an
administrative action.
Thanks
again for all your work on this. Please let me know if you have any
additional questions.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----Dear Jeff,
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Subject: Re: Little .biz proceed helper
no I did not auto-proceed and I also cancelled some requests (on behalf of my clients)
But I understand those who did it (auto-proceed).
During weekend I have checked about 40 biz claims for US and Europe,
and 37 of these claims have been wrong or at least very doubtful
like 'common law'.
I personally think, if somebody really wants to register a high value biz name,
he should be able to take the time and complete the IP-claim with all information
(including international classes which take about 10 minutes)
Matthias
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Are you all trying to imply that you are basically auto-proceeding on all
.BIZ applications without getting permission from the applicants to do so.
In other words, are your applicants even seeing the IP Claim information?
