Trademark Fact Check Partners with Corsearch to Help Protect Trademarks in the .xxx Top-Level Domain

HOBOKEN, N.J., Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Trademark Fact Check, provider of the automated analysis tool for the .xxx sunrise period, today announced a partnership with Corsearch, the premier provider of clearance and protection solutions for trademark and brand professionals. Under the agreement, Corsearch will license its collection of over 60 trademark databases to Trademark Fact Check to facilitate pre-validation for .xxx sunrise applications. Corsearch is part of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services.

With the Trademark Fact Check .xxx sunrise analysis tool, both trademark owners and their ICANN domain registrars can be confident that their applications will pass the .xxx validation process prior to submission to the registry. Trademark Fact Check is a first for the domain name industry. Trademark Fact Check analyzes .xxx trademark sunrise applications to ensure they satisfy the eligibility standards set by the registry by performing 20 different validation checks to determine the eligibility of the application. It also accesses over 60 online trademark databases from Corsearch's largest collection of complete trademark databases in the world to determine eligibility and to detect discrepancies between government trademark data and sunrise domain applications.

"Leveraging trademark technology at the front of the .xxx sunrise workflow is a vast improvement to past sunrise periods," says Joshua Braunstein, General Manager at Corsearch. "With the introduction of Trademark Fact Check, Corsearch is proud to help trademark owners save time and money in protecting their brands in the .xxx top-level domain sunrise period."

Most trademark owners have a lot of confidence in the accuracy of their internal trademark management systems. However, the key issue is how close these internal records match those of the trademark databases, which the .xxx validation agent will be checking against. This is important since once a sunrise application is submitted, there is no opportunity for a trademark owner to make corrections.

"For the first time, automation has been applied to the vetting of sunrise applications for a new gTLD," says Mark Kudlacik, Co-founder of Trademark Fact Check. "Our innovative front-end to the Corsearch collection of trademark databases enables trademark owners and ICANN Registrars to streamline the sunrise submission process and minimize costs associated with protecting trademarks in the .xxx top-level domain."

Trademark Fact Check does not require any software development to use. Users simply upload a file containing their applications. The service then generates a report showing the results. There is a nominal fee for each trademark record that is retrieved and checked by the tool. ICANN-accredited Registrars are eligible for a special reseller program. To apply for a free account, interested users should visit http://www.tmfactcheck.com.

About Corsearch

Corsearch provides high-quality, intuitive tools and expertise that trademark professionals need to effectively manage the trademark screening, search review and watching processes. Its highly trained researchers and customer-designed tools enable the company to offer the premier solutions in the industry. For more information, please visit www.corsearch.com.

About Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services

Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services is a business of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with annual revenues (2010) of 3.6 billion euros and approximately 19,000 people across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Visit www.wolterskluwer.com.

About Trademark Fact Check

Trademark Fact Check is a new venture formed by veterans of the trademark protection and domain name industries. Trademark Fact Check has developed an analysis tool for the .xxx sunrise period that performs 20 different validation checks and searches online trademark databases in real-time. To apply for a free account and learn more about how the technology works, interested ICANN Registrars and trademark owners can visit http://www.tmfactcheck.com or send an email to [email protected].

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SOURCE Trademark Fact Check