Please vote on whether or not to amend Motion 00-29 as follows by sending along your vote equivalent of yes, no, abstain. Thanks, Tim I move to amend the above motion to read: Whereas, the mark "USGenWeb" has been in public use since June 1996 as a Collective Membership mark[*] for the USGenWeb Project, a non-profit volunteer group providing free online genealogical services, and the derivative mark 'USGenWeb Archives' has been in public use since August 1996 as a service mark for the USGenWeb Project's archival services, and the derivative mark 'USGenWeb Archives Project' has been in use since that date as a Collective Membership mark for that subset of the Project's volunteers who manage and maintain that archival service, it is the finding of the USGenWeb Advisory Board that the USGenWeb Project as a group is the rightful holder of 'USGenWeb', 'USGenWeb Archives', and all derivative marks. Whereas the USGenWeb Archive's Project's current Coordinator, Linda Lewis, filed[**] with the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office (PTO) on 1 May, 2000, an application (Serial Number 78006402) in which "Linda Lewis" is listed as the name of the applicant, and "volunteer group" as the applicant entity type, that application containing the declaration that "no other person, firm, corporation or association has the right to use the mark", such an application, if granted, could deny to the USGenWeb Project the lawful right to use the marks by which it has identified the Project's member web sites for over four years. Therefore, the USGenWeb Project Advisory Board officially requests that Linda Lewis withdraw her application as soon as possible, and that she furnish the Advisory Board with a bona fide copy or proof of her withdrawal of said application. The Advisory Board further advises Linda Lewis that it is the Project's intention to retain the legal right to the USGenWeb Archives mark, and that if proof of withdrawal is not received by the Advisory Board within ten (10) business days of the passage of this motion, the Advisory Board will assume that withdrawal is not forthcoming and will proceed with other measures to protect the Project's right to the mark. Recognizing that Linda's goal in making her application was to protect the USGenWeb Archives mark from unauthorized use by those not representing the USGenWeb Project, the Advisory Board assures Linda Lewis that if her application is withdrawn, the Advisory Board will act as expeditiously as possible to register the USGenWeb Project's legal right to the mark. Recognizing that the authority for determining membership in the USGenWeb Archives Project lies with the Coordinator of the USGenWeb Archives Project, the Advisory Board further assures Linda Lewis that if her application is withdrawn, authority for granting or removing authorization to use the USGenWeb Archives mark to identify web sites as part of the USGenWeb Archives Project will be assigned by the USGenWeb Project to Linda Lewis as long as she is a member of the USGenWeb Project and holds the office of Coordinator of the USGenWeb Archives Project.