Mike Rodenbaugh
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Mike Rodenbaugh represents 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, after more than seven years 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.
Mike graduated from University of San Francisco law school in 1995, and then practiced with Lillick & Charles in San Francisco until March, 2000. He is active in the Anti-Phishing Working Group, International Trademark Association and ICANN. With respect to ICANN, Mike twice has been elected to represent the Business Constituency (www.bizconst.org) as one of its three Officers, and as one of its three Councilors on the Generic Names Supporting Organization. The GNSO develops policy relating to generic top level domain space, such as .com, net, org, biz, info, travel, jobs -- and many new gTLDs coming in 2010 and beyond.[1]
Affiliations
Rodenbaugh Law; GNSO Council, Business Constituency; Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), Internet Policy Committee; International Trademark Association (INTA), Internet Committee.
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)