Policy about trademarks

[Richard Hartmann]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:16, Josef Spillner <josef at ggzgamingzone.org> wrote:

> Independent of the procedure, it would be beneficial to have accompanying
> documents and links to relevant trademark rules and databases. There surely
> must be a possibility to query trademarks, servicemarks, patternmarks and
> related minefields all across the world. The distros whose policy is strict
> about them probably already have such material.

I was about to ask the same.


Richard

PS: Totally off topic for this list, but with the discussion at hand,
I will risk it:
Does anyone know the costs involved in registering a world-wide trademark
and how to go about this? The entity which does the registering is based in
the UK. If yes, please reply off-list.