USPTO Updates Policy on Registration of Generic Top-Level Domains
Everyone knows gTLDs such as “.com” and “.net” are not registrable as trademarks, but what about “.Nissan”? In view of ICANN’s impending rollout of hundreds of new gTLDs, the USPTO has recently revised its policy governing registration of gTLDs to provide that gTLDs may be registered as trademarks under certain circumstances.
Originally published at www-staging.finnegan.com
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Naresh Kilaru, USPTO Updates Policy on Registration of Generic Top-Level Domains, Incontestable Blog (April 9, 2014) [The Library at LexBlog, LEX-WK-MT37JEAX, lexpid.org/MT37JEAX]
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