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Additional Documents and Materials on the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH)

Additional Documents and Materials on the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH)

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Last updated: Nov 14, 2018


FINAL TMCH FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT:

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/trademark-clearinghouse-04jun12-en.pdf (as published in the final version of the Applicant Guidebook, in June 2012)

Supplemental Information:


BACKGROUND & DEVELOPMENT:

GNSO Community Recommendations:

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/sti/sti-wt-recommendations-11dec09-en.pdf (Special Trademark Issues (STI) Review Team Report - group convened by the GNSO Council following an ICANN Board request that the GNSO community review certain aspects of ICANN implementation proposals in Version 3 of the Draft Applicant Guidebook)

http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/irt-final-report-trademark-protection-29may09-en.pdf (Implementation Review Team (IRT) Final Report - group convened by the GNSO Intellectual Property Constituency at Board request following identification of trademark protection as an overarching issue for the New gTLD Program)


Implementation of the 2012 New gTLD Program Round:

https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/trademark-clearinghouse-clean-28may10-en.pdf (May 2010, ICANN explanatory memoranda on the TMCH)

https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/trademark-clearinghouse-clean-28may10-en.pdf (May 2010 version as contained in Version 4 of the Draft Applicant Guidebook)

https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/trademark-clearinghouse-comments-and-summary-28may10-en.pdf (May 2010, ICANN staff summary of public comments received on the TMCH)

https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/trademark-clearinghouse-clean-12nov10-en.pdf (Nov 2010 version as contained in Version 5 of the Draft Applicant Guidebook - relevant comments received available at https://forum.icann.org/lists/5gtld-base/)

https://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/trademark-protection-claims-use-15apr11-en.pdf (Apr 2011, ICANN explanatory memoranda on the "use" requirement under the TMCH and URS)

https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/trademark-clearinghouse-redline-15apr11-en.pdf (Apr 2011 version as contained in Version 6 of the Draft Applicant Guidebook - relevant comments received available at https://forum.icann.org/lists/6gtld-base/)


General and Archival Information: 

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse


OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND RELATED INFORMATION:

TMCH Requirements: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/rpm-requirements-14may14-en.pdf

TMCH Functional Specifications: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-regext-tmch-func-spec-02 (October 2016)

TMCH Database Terms of Service Agreement for Registries and Registrars: https://marksdb.org/tmdb/public/tandc

Information about Certification, testing, TLD Startup Process and other information for Registries and Registrars: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/registries-registrars

Registry user manual: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/scsvcs/db-registry-06dec13-en.pdf

Registrar user manual: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/scsvcs/db-registrar-06dec13-en.pdf

TMCH Implementation Assistance Group (IAG) report: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/summary-iag-input-26sep12-en.pdf


METRICS, REVIEWS & EXTERNAL REPORTS:

Metrics compiled for the Competition, Consumer Choice & Consumer Trust Review Team (CCT-RT): https://www.icann.org/resources/reviews/cct/metrics

Analysis Group Survey Response Summary (25 July 2016, prepared at the request of the Working Group's TMCH Sub Team)

Public Comment Forum announcement, information and forum for the Analysis Group's Draft Report on the TMCH (forum opened 25 July 2016, closed 3 September 2016): https://www.icann.org/public-comments/tmch-review-2016-07-25-en

The Analysis Group's Draft Report on the TMCH (25 July 2016): https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/reviews/tmch/draft-services-review-25jul16-en.pdf 

TMCH statistics: http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/content/tmch-stats

NEW! 

Summary of INTA Cost Impact Study Results (dated April 2017) 

ICANN New gTLD Survey Update (May 2017 presentation by Lori Schulman to the CCT-RT)


TMCH CONTRACTING, CRITERIA AND SUBMISSION/VALIDATION PROCESS:

Registration guidelines and information from the TMCH: http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/downloads?title=guidelines&field_category_tid=All

TMCH Guidelines: http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/sites/default/files/files/downloads/TMCH%20guidelines%20v1.0%20_1.pd 

General information about the TMCH: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/faqs

Website for the TMCH (maintained by Deloitte/IBM, with information on requirements, processes, fees and other services): http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/

Scope of Deloitte validation services: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/validation-framework-02jul13-en.pdf

Scope of IBM database services: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/database-framework-02jul13-en.pdf (with Statement of Work #1: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/database-platform-sow-02jul13-en.pdf, and Statement of Work #2: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/sunrise-claims-sow-02jul13-en.pdf) 


OTHER INFORMATION:

Qualified Launch Program (QLP): https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/rpm-requirements-qlp-addendum-10apr14-en.pdf

Approved Launch Program (ALP): https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-12nov13-en