ICANN to IP Experts: Come Back With a Solution for Internet Trademark Protection (Cir

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Trademark issues are emerging with the upcoming introduction of new generic top-level domains on the internet, and the board members of the body introducing the names has passed the ball back to intellectual property experts to find answers.

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The chairman of the ICANN GAC, Janis Karklins, welcomed the steps taken to make sure IP protection but criticized a suggestion that geographic names be given the same level of protection rather than higher protection. So far GAC recommended on the protection of country and place names has not been "fully taken into account," Karklins said, as ICANN provided protection for the top level but not the second level of the forthcoming new gTLDs.