Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

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)

Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

Here is one:

What are those classes and do we need all three? If this is for mostly sentimental reason, would dropping to one class for 900€ not suuffice? Any extra funds could be used to purchase the TM in China, for example, to prevent the flood of szopin's Maemo-branded rubber ducks.

I do not know about others but I did it because I think that owning a TM gives the community a more "official" status. It adds a little more weight in case we need to negotiate a deal with someone: "We are a registered organization and look, we also have a registered Trade Mark!"

It may not be so important for commercial reasons, as you correctly point out, but it is more than just sentiment.

Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

Classes were listed below:
I'm actually fine with maemo™ , never used maemo®, maybe it does sound more official, no idea (actually it looks corpo-like, yikes, add to that 'with limited liability' and we're through the roof official)

Last time we negotiated with someone was with Nokia, and they ended up giving us that TM, surely didn't help them :P

Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

Unfortunately, for renewal of EU registration, the same costs applies whether you decide to renew 1, 2 or 3 classes.

Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

Would like updates on first post with progress and updates of gathered money.

As well maybe we need to add donation button with percentage of needed money, that would be reset every month. For example if expected to gather 200$ a month (that would be 100%) it will show how % was gathered from 1st of month and will reset every 1st of month to 0 %.

Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

There is unfortunately not that much time left, iirc in August all TM are already out of 'grace period' (like already happened with US). And that would make everything even more expensive.

Board needed to wait for this announcement as there still the hand-over from HiFo to e.V. and the bank account setup to be finished in advance.

Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

Here's the donation state as of today:

Code:

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mysql>
mysql> select date, account, total_amount from all_donations order by date;
+------------+--------------+--------------+
| date      | account      | total_amount |
+------------+--------------+--------------+
| 2015-07-01 | PayPal      |        9.46 |
| 2015-07-01 | PayPal      |          10 |
| 2015-07-01 | PayPal      |          10 |
| 2015-07-01 | PayPal      |          15 |
| 2015-07-01 | Deutsche Bank |        26.82 |
| 2015-07-02 | PayPal      |        19.27 |
| 2015-07-02 | PayPal      |        47.05 |
| 2015-07-02 | Deutsche Bank |          100 |
+------------+--------------+--------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select sum(total_amount) from all_donations;
+-------------------+
| sum(total_amount) |
+-------------------+
|            237.6 |
+-------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

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Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

Done (100 EUR)

Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

I'll be sending some soon... I'm just waiting for my monthly salary to arrive, because I've gone RED in my bank account. Have to tap into my Savings for a week or two.

By the way, I think Dave999 should pay for most of the money.
He's the one that uses this site more than anyone XD

Re: [Announcement] Fundraiser for "Maemo" Trademark registration
 

Travelling whole day today, planning to send some money tonight. Will update once it's done.

Update: Already send via PayPal.