[OSM-legal-talk] Trademark applications

[SteveC]

On 20 Jan 2009, at 11:08, MJ Ray wrote:
> Appealing for patience is all well and good, but it sounds like if
> Peter hadn't acted when OSMF and the trademark agent had not acted in
> time, it might have become criminal to call some things openstreetmap
> tomorrow!

If you think I'm a total idiot, then yes, I would have tried to make  
it criminal to use an un-granted trade mark which didn't pass the  
uniqueness test to kill the project I started. Presumably my puppet  
board would have gone along with it, because I control them. Mwa Mwa  
Mwahahhahaa.

Best

Steve