[gnso-pro-wg] Statement of Interest - Kristina Rosette

["Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@xxxxxxx>]

All,

Set forth below is my Statement of Interest.  I look forward to working
with everyone.

Kristina

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Statement of Interest
Kristina Rosette

I am employed as a Special Counsel by Covington & Burling LLP
("Covington"), a general practice law firm with over 600 lawyers in five
offices in three countries.  I am resident in Covington's Washington, DC
office and am a member of the District of Columbia bar.  Since 2004, I
have been a member of the Registration Practice and DNS Administration
Subcommittee of the International Trademark Association's Internet
Committee.  I am also the Intellectual Property Constituency
representative for North America to the GNSO Council.  
I specialize in Internet and trademark matters, and represent trademark
owner clients in connection with such matters.  Among my
responsibilities, I develop and implement offensive and defensive domain
name registration, Internet monitoring, and enforcement strategies;
reclaim domain names through negotiation, arbitration, and litigation;
and advise clients on the use of keywords and sponsored links.  With
specific regard to the previously implemented protective mechanisms, I
have advised clients of participation and registration requirements,
have assisted in asserting claims and securing registrations, and have
initiated challenges to third-party registrations under the .biz STOP
and .mobi Sunrise Challenge policies.  I prepared the INTA Internet
Committee's informal comments to EURid regarding Commission Regulation
(EC) No. 874/2004 and was one of the committee members who met with the
leadership of the PricewaterhouseCoopers .eu validation team pre-launch
to discuss questions and issues of concern to trademark owners.  
I have determined that Covington does not represent ICANN and does not
represent any clients in matters in which ICANN is an adverse party.
Covington did represent the International Cooperative Alliance in
connection with the formation and establishment of DotCooperation LLC,
the .coop registry operator, but that matter has been closed for some
time.  I have also determined that Covington neither represents any gTLD
or sTLD registry operator in matters relating to its capacity as a
registry operator nor represents any client in matters adverse to such
registry operators as registry operators.  Based on the responses to my
inquiries, Covington does not represent any ccTLD registry operator in
its capacity as a registry operator nor does it represent any client in
matters adverse to any ccTLD registry operators as registry operators.
To the best of my knowledge, Covington does not represent any
ICANN-accredited registrar in its capacity as a registrar nor does it
represent any firm client in a matter adverse to a registrar as
registrar.  From time to time, Covington has represented firm clients in
intellectual property matters adverse to registrars, and it is likely to
do so periodically in the future.  I have not been involved in such
matters.  It is possible that a firm client is an ICANN-accredited
registrar, but, if so, Covington does not represent it in such matters.