[Foundation-l] Trademarks (Was: A local chapter without Wikimedians)

[Stephen Bain]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's an interesting question. What is the current trademark
> situation for the WMF?

I don't think permanent links into Madrid Express are supported, but
you can go here and search for "Wikimedia" under "mark":

http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/search/madrid/search-struct.jsp

"Wikimedia" was first registered in France and is now registered in a
dozen countries.

Note that there are some alternatives to having a registered trade
mark - for example, in the common law countries, the action of passing
off - which would likely protect the Wikimedia mark, known as it is
now globally.

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Stephen Bain
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