Re: [Foundation-l] Re: Registering Wikimedia trademarks

Just in case this thread would discuss that point furthermore, and in case
people would ignore it, the World Intellectual Property Organization
(http://www.wipo.int/index.html.en) has probably every answers to your
questions, not to mention the questions you would never have thought to ask.
The USA are one of the 180 members of the organization. And if you're not a
specialist of patents, you can browse the site for hours. For legal issues
regarding the WikiMedia Foundation, you should always ask yourself : is this
question special to WikiMedia because it is a unique project or, by any
chance, is this a question truly common for any kind of activities including
internet non-profit structures ? 95 % of the time you don't have to be
creative because for 200 years, legal people have been working, alas. Just a
question of : where's the info ?

Jean-Christophe Chazalette
aka Aurevilly



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby Bartels" <toby+wikipedia-Sadi0fl/VCj2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:26 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Re: Registering Wikimedia trademarks


> Michael Snow wrote in part:
>
> >One potential risk in waiting is that we could be denied registration
> >because somebody else had already registered the trademark themselves.
> >The US Patent & Trademark Office generally will only check that there
> >are no conflicting registered marks. They will not investigate to make
> >sure that nobody else is using the mark. Instead, they provide "notice"
> >to the public by publishing applications, and if someone raises
> >legitimate objections, then the mark is not registered.
>
> Hum.
> So how easy is it to keep track of these announcements of applications?
> (I assume that we'd be in a good position to object to registration.)
> And how easy is it to keep track of applications in other countries,
> such as the European Union?
>
>
> -- Toby
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