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From: Richard Harrison <>
Subject: Re: [USGenWeb-NW] Re:Service and/or Trademark
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:40:52 -0800
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wrote:

>
> Kathy;
>
> I have been following the AB minutes concerning the Service/Trademark
> for USGW. It was mentioned that the CP Application was suspended. There
> are two CP in the project, the Incorporated one run by Ron E. and the
> other that is affiliated (is that the right word?) with USGW. The inc.
> one was banned for a while, but recently was accepted back when Ron
> became an advisory board member.
>
> This motion (01-38 for Reciprocal Agreement,does this imply that the
> the CP Inc. is the "official USGW P Census Project",and not the CP run
> by Maggie for the USGW? I thought this (Service/Trademark) issue was
> originally against Linda for putting the Archives under her name? Which
> CP is it implying,(about suspension) in the suite prepared by the
> Trademark Committee? I would think that it would affect both the CP
> Projects as both are using the "USGW" mark (Service/Trademark)
>
> I am not clear on this and thought you might clarify it. Thank you for
> listening.
>
> Esse
>



Hi Esse-

I'm not Kathy, but I may be able to clear up a couple of things for you.

1) There is no "official USGW P Census Project." The incorporated one
was severed from the project 1 May 2000. Ron Eason's election as
Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Region CC Representative had no effect on the
relationship between the census project he is involved with and the
USGWP. The other census project was a part of the USGWP Archives. Since
they separated from the Archives they have not asked to be recognized by
the USGW Project as a Special Project. When the links to both of these
census projects were added to the USGWP site, it did not imply
recognition of either project as the "official" one.

2) If the Board approves a reciprocal consent agreement it does not
imply a change in relationship between the USGWP and either census
project. It only means that the USGWP and the Census Project, Inc. would
not object to each others servic mark applications.

3) For some reason the PTO has suspended action on the Census Project,
Inc.'s application. This may or may not have anything to do with our
application or Linda's application.

4) The PTO has not found any conflict between our application and
Linda's application. (At least not so far.)

-Isaiah




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