Deryck Chan wrote:
"This time" misses the point of risk management - it's all probabilistic rather than deterministic. It is totally reasonable for WMF to have judged that the differences between the two logos are large enough that a trademark claim is sufficiently *unlikely* to happen. But outliers do occur and in this case WTO chose (against perceived odds) to make a claim. And it's totally reasonable, too, for the WMF to now judge that the risks of going to court about this logo isn't worth fighting.
Saying that WMF must've made a mistake last time because they allowed the logo in the first place but then gave in on the trademark claim simply misses the point.
Very well put. :-)
MZMcBride