[WikiEN-l] AstroWikipedia

Wed Oct 15 19:47:47 UTC 2003

Nikola Smolenski wrote:

>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?
>
The claim that "Wikipedia" is a generic term presupposes that others 
have used it before. Please name some.

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