[OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

[Michael Kugelmann]

On 01.02.2013 22:07, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> The verb 'to geocode' is generic English language word and I'll stand 
> by that even if a US court decides otherwise.
+1
And there was also mentioned that tradmark was rejected in EU.
Additionally: if i search for the some information in the WWW I always 
found the trademark for GEOCODE in all capital letters. =>  a question 
to all experts: does this matter? I guess so...
http://trademark.markify.com/trademarks/wipo/geocode/1131057
http://socialmedia.trademarkia.com/socialmedia/username-geocode-78663072.htm
http://www.trademarks411.com/marks/78663072-geocode
...even if I search at the USPTO directly:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4009%3A48lrkt.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=GEOCODE&p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query



Best regards,
Michael.