Chad,

From what we were told there have been several cases starting as early as 1990 where courts upheld that color schemes that were used by companies other than the one who initially used it were ruled in favor of the original color scheme user... Even when these colors were not used as part of a logo but as secondary, even tertiary brand use and even in cases involving packaging of products.

Which, would be the use of the GWW color scheme, its part of the overall packaging of the GWW Community/Directory whilst it doesnt matter if the colors on GWW change, someone else using the same colors would, once the trademark is approved, be violating it, especially if they were operating a similar forum, dealing with similar topics to us.

Regards,

Lee