Selection of Trademark Clearinghouse service providers

ICANN to select IBM and Deloitte as Trademark Service providers to start the work on implementation of Trademark Clearinghouse services.

Has anyone checked the INPI Database recently and would it be considered as a conflict of interest if one of these companies' employees registered "dotname" as Trademarks?

I will dig into the question and of course, comments are welcome.

Read the TMCH ICANN announcement here.
Other source of information for implementation of the TMCH.