On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/24 Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Yeah and, what Nathan probably meant: If a chapter ignores a >> termination message and keeps using the trademark, we would need to >> obtain an injunction in *their* country. Now, I think the Wikipedia >> trademark is not even registered internationally yet (it isn't in >> Switzerland, so I suppose it isn't in that many other countries >> either), so we'd run into problems. As a matter of fact, the chapter >> could just register the trademark in the country and unless the >> foundation was willing to really put up a court fight to get the >> trademark back, they could just ignore the termination notice. > > That's an interesting question. What is the current trademark > situation for the WMF? A trademarks committee was set up nearly 3 > years ago to advise the board on what trademarks to register and where > but it seems to have only lasted a few months before disbanding. There > is a page on meta ("Wikimedia Trademarks") that was marked as > historical over a year ago on which Angela said the details of the > trademarks were confidential, but that doesn't sound right - how can a > registered trademark be confidential? Doesn't it need to be public > knowledge in order to serve a purpose? The main reasons I can see in > old discussions for not registering everything and everywhere was that > it's expensive and time consuming, but we have a much larger budget > now (the discussions say the registration fee is $400 a time for the > US, which was a lot of money for the foundation 2 or 3 years ago, it > isn't now) and a full time staff (including a general counsel) which > it didn't have when the committee was set up. It would seem we can > reasonably register (and even, if necessary, defend) all our major > trademarks in at least those countries where we have significant > activity (in terms of readership, more than anything), so has this > been done? >
Trademarks has been one of Mike's projects for a while now. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l