[Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

[Yana Welinder]

Hi all,

We have posted our response to this on the trademark policy discussion page
and with a request to hold off opposition.  We welcome your comments there:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion#Response_from_the_WMF_legal_department_and_request_to_hold_off_opposition

Best,
Geoff & Yana


On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:50 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote:
> >We also want to note that this is in no way a legal action against the
> >Foundation, but a simple notice of opposition against the registration
> >of the logo in the European Union.
>
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for writing this up. I have a few questions.
>
> Was the logo trademarked only in the European Union?
>
> How is it possible to trademark a public domain image?
>
> Who at the Wikimedia Foundation worked to trademark this logo?
>
> What's meant by the "opposition end date" listed at wipo.net?
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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