[Osmf-talk] Treasurer's report for tomorrow's AGM

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 12/09/2016 11:57 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Oh - if this is just for me then please don't.

For everyone who dares bring something up, there's 10 others who think
the same just don't speak up ;)

I went through the invoices and I can report the following:

07 Apr £257.72 Legal help in sending a letter about a third-party
trademark application that contained the name OpenStreetMap.

09 May £480.00 Legal help in settling a potential objection from a third
party over our "State of the Map" trademark application.

21 Jun £8,160.00 Legal help in extending our trademark to Argentina,
Mexico, Brazil, and Turkey. Invoice doesn't state whether part of the
sum is a registration fee or all is consulting but we haven't received a
separate registration fee invoice. Invoice lists minimally different
prices for each country but they're all around £2,000.

29 Sep £2,400.00 Legal services in re-filing our trademark application
in an undisclosed country. Doesn't state whether part of the sum is a
registration fee but likely to be the case. (I'm not saying which
country because LWG have suggested that we don't make a lot of noise
about trademarks we haven't got yet.)

> Seriously, i don't really care much about past money spent, my main 
> motivation to bring this up here is future decisions.  So if (and only 
> if) others also consider this useful and important it might be a good 
> idea to document this in more detail in the future.

It looks like we'd have to ask our lawyers to make more specific
invoices so that we can then make more precise accounting ;)

Bye
Frederik

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