At 4:07 PM -0700 10/19/00, Holly Timm wrote: >I'm still waiting on a report from the TM committee... what did they find >out and what did they think about applying... and about what is the >difference between an SM and a TM... et cetera. Me too. I thought we were supposed to get a report by Oct 15, containing at the very least the recommendations on all the questions that Tim posed when he formed the committee. I do agree we should apply for the Service Mark "The USGenWeb Project" as soon as possible, as long as we also apply for "USGenWeb", and as long as the "Applicant" on both applications is named as "The USGenWeb Project", an unincorporated non-profit association, rather than any individual. While I can't see any reason why not to apply for "The USGenWeb Project", we can't stop there. As Richard Howland, John Strunk, and many others have pointed out, it does little to protect us against somebody else putting up "The USGenWeb Genealogy Network" or "The NonProfit USGenWeb Site" or "The USGenWeb Digital Library" or "The USGenWeb Transcription Database", etc., etc. There haven't yet been any immediate threats to the exact phrase "The USGenWeb Project", it's only other phrases using USGenWeb that are being threatened. -- Teri