11 December 2012Trademarks

IP Summit: Microsoft attorney urges rights owners to prepare now for gTLDs

Rights owners should begin developing their enforcement strategies for protecting their marks in the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) space, Microsoft attorney Russell Pangborn has warned.

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6 December 2012 Google has withdrawn three of its applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) because they matched three-letter country codes that cannot be registered under the programme.

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IP Summit: Microsoft attorney urges rights owners to prepare now for gTLDs

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