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color:#1F497D'>Dear Bill Smith,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Yes about 100k$ = it’s exactly that ! :)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>-Snorri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> legal-bounces@openid.net
[mailto:legal-bounces@openid.net] <b>De la part de</b> Bill Smith<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> dimanche 9 mars 2008 16:21<br>
<b>À :</b> legal@openid.net<br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [legal] Questions about OpenID Europe Trademark Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In order to protect and enforce "proper" usage of
the mark it will be necessary to register the mark in each of the
jurisdictions you wish to seek such protection. Any number of Intellectual
Property firms (I'm not an attorney) can help with this. Note, it typically
takes a few years and costs 1 000 - 3 000 USD per jurisdiction for the initial
filing (About 100 000 USD for good commercial coverage). Additional costs are
incurred to renew and should there be any challenges.<br>
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Carsten Pötter wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Bill Washburn <<a
href="mailto:billhwashburn@yahoo.com">billhwashburn@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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Also, it important to say that there is a trademark committee just getting
going anew that is tackling these and related issues globally with the
objective to establish/articulate a set of policies and guidelines that are
understandable, well aligned, and coordinated across jurisdictions around the
globe. Please let me know if any of you would like to volunteer for that
committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Well, I guess working on those guidelines should be up to some lawyers who know
various jurisdictions. It wouldn't make much sense if there were guidelines
being established which can't be enforced globally.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Carsten<o:p></o:p></p>
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