Hello,

if someone of you has experience with non-profit foundations/organizations, please contact me.

Cheers, Daniel

On 08/13/08 11:29, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:

Hello,

On 08/13/08 08:37, Max van Biezen wrote:

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Hi,

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a quick operational expenses estimation for the first year brought up the figure of ~3000Euro, that includes the expenses for creating the foundation, two hosted servers (one main, one backup), domain names and trademark registrations. The costs regarding TM registration expenses (US&EU) are not yet very clear to me, maybe someone can shed some light if he/she did it recently.

I can only give an indication on EU trademark. That is 850,- one time fee. This fee is due regardless the fact some company will complain or not. As happened to me.

The process can be done by yourself no lawyers needed. However there are lawyers outhere that simply complain to everything in the hope some company which they claim to represent willl pay for it. Anyway worst case scenario would then be to drop the registration whihc means the 850 is gone

Bottom line just try it yourself. It is a long process before registration is final (more than 6 months)

thank you for the details.

Cheers, Daniel

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Max van Biezen