JoLee, from what I understand, trademarking will help prevent someone
from incorporating the USGenWeb Archives behind our backs. With the
actions of some lately, incorporating projects as their own, we needed
to be legally filed as a trademark so it can't happen to the Archives.
Before doing this, I had heard that someone else might or could do it.
Since we've used the name since June 1996, they would lose in a court
battle, but who wants to go through that?? <sigh>
Linda
"JoLee Spears
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jolee/index.htm"
wrote:
Hi
Can we have a rundown of this situation?
I am for anything to better or protect the Archives, as well as the county
sites.
I am not familiar with the full meaning of a trademark relative to the safety
or protection of the Archives, or any website. What does a registered
trademark protect against, and how protected are we now?
I have always understood the USGenWeb Archives was "permanent and permanently
free."
Please explain so we can understand it better.
Thanks so much.
JoLee Spears