[WikiEN-l] enforcing our trademark

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 1/9/06, SCO Estmort <eudaimonic.leftist at gmail.com> wrote:
> It occurs to me we should enforce some of our trademarks, because rampant
> infringement of Wikipedia's trademarks, and Wikimedia's trademarks in
> general is occurring. If we don't enforce our trademarks IIRC, we will
> eventually lose the ability to enforce them forever.
>
> For example: WikipediaClassAction.org is violating our trademark and
> copyright. Wikipedi.org, wikicommons.org, etc. are candidates for trademark
> infringement. I am not a lawyer, but it occurs to me that we apparently
> abhor being on the defending side of lawsuits so much, we abhor being the
> plaintiff.
>

I'll bite.  What's wrong with wikicommons.org?  Are you trying to say
the WMF has a trademark on anything that starts with wiki?