I don't want to further delay this important issue but feel that further comment is warranted. It seems to me that this Board has no higher responsibility than to insure that the Project name is protected. This should have been done long ago while previous Boards shadow boxed other piddling issues but now that we are coming to grips with it we need to do it right. The motion now on the table is non threatening, insures the Archives, the Tombstone project and any other future project the right to be assigned a service mark with "USGenWeb" as part of the mark. It asks Linda to give up her filing and lose her filing fee while assuring her the right to use "USGenWeb archives" as a service mark. Something the Board should keep in mind is that if Linda agrees to withdraw her filing we can file for "USGenWeb" without further adieu. But if not we have to have assurance that Linda will ALLOW us to file for our mark. This is backwards and means Linda is assigning us rights which we should already own. We should own "USGenWeb" and all derivative marks and WE should assign usage. This is how I see it, folks, and that will be the reasoning upon which my following vote on this motion is based. Joe -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm