[Foundation-l] Re: French domain lost

[Michael Snow]

Anthere wrote:

>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.

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