Drafted by Dr. Hong Xue on behalf of CDNUA, At-Large@China and ISOC-Australia
\nThis document is consistent with the statements and advices made by the ALAC and At-Large Community to the ICANN Board and that it is reflective of the views of many ALSes within the Asia Pacific Region and that it is expected to gain support of the APRALO as a formal Statement at our next meeting on the 28th of July. We also get the support from the other organizations\/ key stakeholders in this Region.
\nA majority of Asians are non-ASCII users. The implementation of IDN TLDs is essentially important in Asia. However, we have concern that the IRT proposals, particularly the additional \u201cmeaning\u201d (commercial impression) criterion, would negatively impact the IDN TLD applicants. Since this criterion has never been applied to the existing ASCII TLDs- for instance .biz was not precluded for being \u201cmeaningfully or semantically similar\u201d to .com, ICANN should not impose the double standards to the IDN TLDs merely for the protection of interests of one stakeholder group. We strongly affirm that evaluation of string confusion must be restricted to visual similarity, and not be inappropriately enhanced to include “aural or meaning (\u201ccommercial impression\u201d)”, which is very subjective and would open the door to endless disputes.
\nWith respect to GPM, we concern the proposal that \u201cthe confusing similarity analysis of applied-for gTLD strings against GPMs include the aural and commercial impression (meaning) of the applied-for string in addition to the visual similarity\u201d would unreasonably prejudice the IDN TLD applicants. Legal protection of a trademark in translation or transliteration must be subject to the complicated legal analysis and judgment based on special law in the respective territory. ICANN has neither the authority nor capacity to do this in the Initial Evaluation process. If taken into account those famous marks that consist of generic terms, the IRT proposal would seem absurd. Why should a trademark such as \u201cBOSS\u201d, \u201cDOVE\u201d or \u201cVOGUE\u201d bar the Chinese-character TLDs like \u201c.\u8001\u677f\u201d\u3001\u201c.\u9e3d\u5b50\u201dor \u201c.\u65f6\u5c1a\u201d?
\nIn contrast to the trademarks that have been singled out as an overarching issue for new gTLD implementation, we concern that the other legal issues that are protected by the international treaties, such as non-trademark “traditional knowledge”, would be unreasonably ignored or push aside.
\nWe reiterate the concerns that have been expressed in various circumstances by the at-large communities that ICANN should not engage in any trademark protection regime which extends beyond existing international intellectual property treaties and the inherent legal limitations on the trademark rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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