And, BTW and AFAIK, trademark expires if the owner has no objections on trademark usage (at least, I heard something like that about the Linux trademark which is owned by Linus Torvalds).
On 8/31/07, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/31/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I think "Buy XYZ" is more a suggested search query than an advert. Google picks a keyword from the page you're viewing, and then suggests you might want to search for places to buy it. It's pretty rubbish and annoying, but I don't think it's anything to worry about - it's just nonsense, really. Can nonsense be a trademark violation?
The problem is that it is a nonsense if you read it literary. However, it is *not* a nonsense if you are reading this in the sense of buying Wikipedia content (which is a common sense of, for example, "buy Wikipedia"; cf. "buy Linux"). At least, Google should exclude Wikipedia from its common commercial add ons: "buy Wikipedia", "trade Wikipedia" and similar. Anyone who wants to make money on Wikipedia(tm) should pay for (tm) at least in USA.