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?