[Foundation-l] Re: Registering Wikimedia trademarks

Tue May 4 18:26:21 UTC 2004

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