Posted by Adam Quinan on February 09, 2010 at 18:39:17 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Trademarks posted by Duncan on February 09, 2010 at 17:19:51:
My understanding is that even if you register a trademark, you must make efforts to
a) establish that you are "using" the trademark and
b) that you are taking active efforts to prevent other people from using it by writing legal letters to people using it without authorisation.
If you don't do either of those two things, then someone else can challenge the registration and show that it is not in fact a trademark which would leave it open for someone else to registerand use or else for a free for all.