Searching for marks beginning with wiki we get:
TM Number Mark Text Type Date Status Classes
E897769 WIKI WO 05.08.1998 Registered 25
E3082732 WIKING WO 04.03.2003 Registered 07 12 25
1355328 WIKINGER WO 19.08.1988 Registered 29
E4476032 Wiking-water WO 02.07.2005 New Application 32
E839132 Wikipedia WO 20.01.2005 New Application 41
U00000839132 Wikipedia WO 16.12.2004 New Application 41
E4620704 Wikipodo WO 28.09.2005 New Application 35 38 39
2395783 WIKI The Master of Tales SW 01.07.2005 Registered 09 41 42
E839132 and U00000839132 are held by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
of 3911 Harrisburg St. NE, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, 33703.
Wikipogo (E4620704) is in German and I don't know what it is for. The
other marks are for "Clothing", "Apparatus for transporting people
and/or goods on water, more specifically rubber dinghies", "foodstuffs
in the form of prepared meals", "Beers; mineral and aerated waters and
other non-alcoholic drinks" and "Computer games programs; on-line
computer games software and programmes", respectivley.
It would be good if the foundation registered the globe logo as well
as the wikipedia name. I think the various other wiki names should
also be registered, but I have no idea how much work is needed to do
this.
Cheers,
Andrew
On 2/7/06, Scott Keir <scottkeir(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hmm...
I was about to say that just because a company name is registered,
doesn't stop anyone from trading with that name... but the website
associated with it is too close for comfort.
Someone online and friendly during UK office hours might want to have a
look around
http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/dbase/index.htm
I hope that someone at the Foundation is appropriately protecting the
various service marks of the Foundation as best they can as
internationally as they can? (And yes, it is a certain irony that the
information project that seeks to be free should restrict its name, but
that's the best way to ensure the continued freedom and development of
the information.)
Scott
On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, at 10:40 am, Gordon Joly wrote:
At 19:18 +0000 6/2/06, Jon wrote:
I don't think you'll be calling it
Wikimania if it's held here.
Someone else has just reserved the name:
<http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/7ad486b4e5c5061eafd24735179995fc//
compdetails>http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/
7ad486b4e5c5061eafd24735179995fc//compdetails
Kind regards
Jon
Wikimania Ltd was incorporated and registered at Companies House on
2nd February 2006 by Dr. Heinz W. Neuling of the Infochannel Group:
see also
http://www.jurablo.gs/
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