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On March 15, 2000, AIPPI welcomed the [[European Commission]]s proposal to create the [[.eu]] top level domain name to serve the needs of European businesses and consumers. The organization suggested that the ICANN UDRP should be used by the [[.eu]] [[TLD]] to protect trademark owners from cyber criminals. It also supported the implementation on second level domains for the .eu TLD. AIPPI believed that it will reduce problems between competing trademark owners. Overall, the organization emphasized the need for a sufficient mechanism to protect the intellectual property rights holders from possible abuse.<ref>
On March 15, 2000, AIPPI welcomed the [[European Commission]]s proposal to create the [[.eu]] top level domain name to serve the needs of European businesses and consumers. The organization suggested that the ICANN UDRP should be used by the [[.eu]] [[TLD]] to protect trademark owners from cyber criminals. It also supported the implementation on second level domains for the .eu TLD. AIPPI believed that it will reduce problems between competing trademark owners. Overall, the organization emphasized the need for a sufficient mechanism to protect the intellectual property rights holders from possible abuse.<ref>
[https://www.aippi.org/download/onlinePublications/positionPaper.pdf Preliminary comments of AIPPI on the Position Paper on the Creation of the .EU Internet Top Level Domain, March 15, 2000]</ref>
[https://www.aippi.org/download/onlinePublications/positionPaper.pdf Preliminary comments of AIPPI on the Position Paper on the Creation of the .EU Internet Top Level Domain, March 15, 2000]</ref>
==AIPPI Members & Q160 ICANN Task Force Involvement with ICANN==
The Q160 ICANN Task Force is a special committee of AIPPI which was tasked to monitor, evaluate and to provide advice regarding specific issues or policies raised by ICANN that would impact the interest of the association. The committee is also responsible in developing proposals to solve the issues, to  establish contacts, represent the voice and interests of AIPPI and to seek support within the ICANN bodies most particularly within the [[IP Constituency]] of the [[Generic Names Supporting Organization|GNSO]].<ref>[https://www.aippi.org/?sel=questions&sub=specialcommittees&viewQ=199 Listing of all AIPPI special committees]</ref>
Most of the staff and members of Q160 ICANN Task Force are also members of the IP Constituency such [[Guillermo Carey]], former Chairman of Q160 in 2004 also served as  Intellectual Property Constituency Representative to the Names Council of the [[Domain Name Supporting Organization|DNSO]];<ref>[http://www.internationallawoffice.com/directory/biography.aspx?g=041294a3-5cc5-4382-972b-9d7e36acbede International Law Office-Lawyer Biography]</ref> [[Mark Partridge]], who also served as Chairman of the committee in 2009 served as Member of ICANN's [[Implementation Recommendation Team|IRT]]<ref>[https://www.aippi.org/download/commitees/160/Report160Report+ExCo+Meeting+Buenos+Aires+2009English.pdf Report Q160]</ref> [[Jane Mutimear]], current co-Chairman of Q-160 was elected president of the IP Constituency in 2002. After her term as president in 2003, she was re-elected as vice-president until 2005.<ref>[https://www.aippi.org/?sel=questions&sub=specialcommittees&viewQ=199 Listing of all AIPPI special committees]</ref> <ref>[http://gnso.icann.org/intellectual-property/ Intellectual Property Council Members]</ref>


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