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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Well, this donation request is for TM renewal.
As I stated in my first post, you may detail your donation so that if we cannot use your funds for the TM registration we can refund it to you.

Similarily, you can donate to "General Maemo infra maintanance" for example, prohibiting your donation to be used for TM renewal.
Or any other cause you'd like to support.

Just remember to add that bit of information to your donation, we will honor your request of course!
Thanks juiceme, meant that mostly in the way that outside of the fact that 'TM is up for renewal', there doesn't really seem to be any reason to do that. We as a community did not reach the conclusion that we need to register it in the first place and the only reason to dish out the money for TM seems to be: scary things can happen.

edit: which are not even that scary, as per wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unregistered_trademark
we can still take ppl to court and make them stop infringing (though probably we will not get rich that way)
In those jurisdictions with limited protection to unregistered trademark owners, a common law trademark owner's remedies may be limited to injunctive relief (a court order for the defendant to cease and desist the infringement).

Last edited by szopin; 2015-07-02 at 09:14.
 

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