[Foundation-l] Wikipedia trademark not registered by Wikimedia Foundation

Sun Apr 23 19:38:39 UTC 2006

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:58:56AM -0700, Jrgen Herz wrote:
> Hello,
>
...
 > Owner is a company called "Firestorm Forces Ltd." and searching on it
> together with Wikipedia I learned they're involved some bad
> anti-Wikipedia agitation. Seems they're also acting as "Infochannel
> Group" and as those clashed with german Wikipedians because of their
> entry ([[Infochannel Group]]) in de.wikipedia. 

"Firestorm Forces Ltd." and "Infochannel Group" are identical.

> They also run a site
> called Encyclopedia Wikimania (http://www.wikimania.co.uk), a quite
> strange one with no real content.
> 
...

yep,  and we'll loose wikipedia.eu, wikimedia.eu and other .eu 
domains to them too, I suppose. 
(because of completely incompetent handling of .eu matters on 
Wikimedia side)

> Maybe someone is interested in doing some more research and foundating
> might think about filing an opposition.

Try to send it to juriwiki-l, unfortunately from my experience its as 
useful as sending it to /dev/null

Jan Kulveit (User:Wikimol)