The legal team have provided some background on the hiring on Jones Day in this action. Here is their comment: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Logo/Request_for_consultation...
James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:56 PM, tomasz@twkozlowski.net wrote:
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote on September 26, 2013, 15:22 UTC:
Trademark don't self-enforce, they are "enforceable" as long as someone
believes to you when you use them as threat tools. So yes, I suppose they might.
... and given that the WMF just hired the infamous Jones Day bullies as their representative before the OHIM to fight an opposition filled by their own volunteers (me and Federico), I don't think it's an unfair view.
I suggest that everyone interested in the subject read < http://www.dmlp.org/blog/**2009/sam-bayard/thoughts-** jones-day-blockshopper-**settlementhttp://www.dmlp.org/blog/2009/sam-bayard/thoughts-jones-day-blockshopper-settlement> and related links for an overview of a 2009 Jones Day lawsuit against a start-up company Blockshopper.com which Paul Levy called "a new a new entry in the contest for grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn’t like".
I'm aware that, being a party of the opposition, I shouldn't really comment on the WMF's litigation tactics, but it still leaves me wonder about the point of hiring, as some say, "one of the worst trademark abusers in history", as their representative in this case.
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