{"id":28,"date":"2012-12-12T04:20:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-05-18T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T08:04:52","slug":"the-use-of-e-mails-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"The use of e-mails in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever write an e-mail? Well, you probably used the @ sign then.<\/p>\n<p>On the site, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/At_sign I just found the strange sentence<\/p>\n<p>Since 23 October 2012, the At-sign is registered as a trade Mark by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office \u2013 DPMA (registration number 302012038338) for @T.E.L.L. Trading house for exclusive luxury labels GmbH, 69469 Weinheim, DE. From now on it\u2019s illegal for other commercial interests to use the At-sign.<\/p>\n<p>which does seem to be a strange kind of Wikipedia humour, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a German patent only applies to a class of goods. In this case, the patent was not applied for the use in IT, so it is _not_ illegal for commercial companies to use the At-sign. Perhaps I don&#8217;t understand Wikipedia humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever write an e-mail? Well, you probably used the @ sign then. On the site, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/At_sign I just found the strange sentence Since 23 October 2012, the At-sign is registered as a trade Mark by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office \u2013 DPMA (registration number 302012038338) for @T.E.L.L. Trading house for exclusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,3,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG60H-s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}