Michael Snow a écrit:

Anthere wrote:

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I think that in this case, Foundation holding the US trademark and european one will be sufficient. Jimbo just told me that the US one was approved and the other underway.

For clarification, I believe the current situation is that we have submitted the application to register Wikipedia as a trademark in the US. The application was filed last month, but I don't believe it is approved yet, as it still needs to be reviewed by the Patent and Trademark Office and published to see if anyone objects to registration. Actual registration can take up to a year or longer. We certainly consider Wikipedia a trademark, whether registered or not, but I recommend that people be careful not to claim that it is registered at this point.

Good point to mention. Since there is a tiny discrepancy between your message and Jimbo comment, it might be best that Jimbo clarifies. But in any cases, we need to be conservative on this point obviously.

One year :-(

Once we have the initial registration in place, this should help us expedite other registrations that may be necessary, such as the EU. Based on international agreements, I believe that once the trademark is recognized, additional registrations can be backdated to the earliest registration date.

As far as I know, trademark registration is not necessary in order to register domain names anywhere. However, it may be helpful in recovering squatted domain names.

--Michael Snow

Yes. Well, we'll try the gentle way first