IGO-INGO Identifier Protection recommendations adopted by the GNSO Council inadequate

[Luz.Becker@xxxxxxx]

The European Space Agency ESA supports the comment by the 
United Nations and other IGOs,  that the recent IGO-INGO Identifier 
Protection recommendations 
adopted by the GNSO Council are inadequate to protect the names and 
acronyms of 
intergovernmental organizations.

Indeed the Accronym ESA is visible on our satellites and launchers and 
more known than our full name. Given its shortness our Accronym is much 
more likely to be subject to cybersquatting and its use in domain names by 
third parties would lead to confusion. Therefore the Accronyms of IGOs 
should enjoy the same protection as the full names of IGOs.

In times of limited budgets and financial constraints of our Members 
States, ESA would have difficulties to go along the tedious and costly 
process of defending its Accronym in gTLDs as currently foreseen.

It is incomprehensible that ICANN should fall behind the protection the 
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is granting to 
IGOs in the case of trademarks. Should only the fittest and the one with 
the largest budget prevail in the competition around gTLDs?

Best regards





ESA - European Space Agency

Dr. Luz Becker
Intellectual Property, European Patent Attorney
Legal Department

Headquarters
8-10 rue Mario Nikis
75738 Paris Cedex 15, France
luz.becker@xxxxxxx | www.esa.int

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