Mike Rodenbaugh

Country:	USA
Website:	[www.rodenbaugh.com www.rodenbaugh.com]
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Mike Rodenbaugh is a lawyer representing clients in all matters relating to domain names, trademarks, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property, and in e-commerce, licensing and marketing transactions and dispute resolution efforts. Mike started his law firm in 2007.

ICANN Involvement

He is active in the Anti-Phishing Working Group, International Trademark Association and ICANN. Mike has been elected two times to represent the Business Constituency as one of its three Officers, and as one of its three Councilors on the Generic Names Supporting Organization.

Past Work

Before starting his own law firm he had more than seven years of experience in co-managing trademark and domain name inventory and strategy for Yahoo! Inc., and handling hundreds of different transactions and dispute resolutions for Yahoo! His team managed all matters of protection and infringement of Yahoo!'s trademarks and domain names worldwide, and advised on all legal and policy issues involving brand marketing, trademarks, domain names, and rights of publicity.

As a fresh graduate he practiced with Lillick & Charles in San Francisco until March, 2000.

Education

Mike graduated from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1995. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in political science from Santa Clara University.

ICANN Working Groups

Vertical Integration (VI); Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA); GNSO Improvements Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) (PDP work team); Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP); Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR); Registration Abuse Policies (RAP); Fast Flux Hosting (FF); New gTLD Task Force (single- and two-character names, reserved names and IDN subgroups; Special Trademark Issues (STI) implementation team); Domain Name Tasting (Chair).

Videos

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Gray Chynoweth interviews Mike about the legal issues related to new TLDs.

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Policy Development Process

Internationalized Domain Name