[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia.ru & Wikimedia.de

[Alex R.]

From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com>

> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > Not needed. Unregistered trademarks are legal in the US 
> > and EU countries so if  they want to travel to these nations 
> > then they should respect our trademark. 
> >
> >Stop the fucking FUD, ok ?

Guys calm down this is just a legal discussion. Everyone is
entitled to their opinion, even if it is wrong!

> >Nobody's going to be arrested abroad for breaking 
> >laws that don't even exist in one's own country 
> >while being in it.
> 
> Stop fucking the strawman; nowhere was the word "arrested" used in my 
> statement and you can't get arrested for violating trademark law anyway. 

Depends what you mean by trademark law. There are criminal laws
against trademark misappropriation. This is very informative:
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ipmanual/01ipma.htm

Here is some information about opposing registration in Russia.
http://www.patsgr.narod.ru/op_tm.htm

Note the trademark registration fees are high (like US fees)
and someone may not want to spend the money for this.
Even so, Wikipedia's Russian version may have been up and
running before these guys got going (they only have about
170 articles, no?)

Alex756