[WikiEN-l] AstroWikipedia

Wed Oct 15 08:16:29 UTC 2003

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 14:20, Imran Ghory wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, cprompt wrote:
> > Don't see any reason to. They're not claiming to be connected to
> > Wikipedia, and Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and all our other sites all list
> > which sites are ours.
>
> IANAL. But, my understand is that general use of the term Wikipedia could
> generify it, thus preventing the Wikimedia foundation from gaining a
> trademark on the name at a later date.

NAI ;) But, could WIkipedia be trademark at all as it is generic term? Noone 
can trademark "Cherry Jam" as a name for cherry jam, could anyone trademark 
"Wikipedia" as a name for a Wiki encyclopedia?