Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Getting confused -- trademark cohousing?

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

For some reason I remember having to get their permission years ago. I could
have been mistaken, through the mists of time...or the situation might have
changed. Good to hear it from the source. Thanks, Ann.

Liz

> From: "Ann Zabaldo" <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net>
> Organization: Great Expectations
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:25:30 -0500
> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_Getting confused -- trademark cohousing?
> 
> Hi all!  Jumping into the fray here...
> 
> Actually, the term "cohousing" is NOT trademarked and cannot be trademarked
> because it is in common use.  Katie McCamant told me this last year when I
> inquired.
> 
> Ann Zabaldo
> 
> Takoma Village Cohousing
> Washington, DC. -- America's
> Hometown!
> zabaldo [at] earthlink.net
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Stevenson" <tamgoddess [at] attbi.com>
> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 8:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_Getting confused
> 
> 
>> Sharon, I think it might be trademarked.
>> --
>> Liz Stevenson
>> Southside Park Cohousing
>> Sacramento California
>> tamgoddess [at] attbi.com
>>> From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
>>> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
>>> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:25:30 -0500
>>> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [C-L]_Getting confused
>>> 
>>>> Another in the planning stages for 32
>>>> units with a 2000 sgft common house.  Is this cohousing?
>>> 
>>> Why wouldn't this be cohousing?
>>> 
>>> And the problem is that the word is not trademarked. No one has to get
>>> approval to use it (I don't think).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sharon
>>> --
>>> Sharon Villines
>>> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
>>> http://www.takomavillage.org
>>> 
>>> 
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