"This is all very complicated... just how much of this did the ladies of the wiccan group actually understand?" [Emailed Question]
Morrigan Wisecraft and the other ladies and gentlemen although for the most part quite senior in years understand quite a lot.
At first they couldn't get their minds round how they could have registered the highcrossquarter domain names first... fair and square and then be in a position where they might lose them to a large corporation who wanted to use it for what is now the Highcross Leicester
We explained to Mrs Wisecraft and the wiccan group that Hammerson Plc had registered the trade mark "Highcross Quarter" for use as the name for their new development and that this carried quite a lot of weight.
But we were able to show ladies how in reality Morrigan's title to the names was quite unassailable as Hammerson Plc had trade marked a generic name which had an established use in Wicca.
Mrs Wisecraft though, to this day cannot fathom how on earth Hammerson Plc with all their experts and status made such a "colossal cock up" to name it Highcross Quarter.
The decision by Nominet to find in favour of Hammerson on the lower level and less important highcrossquarter.co.uk domain is something Morrigan and the ladies also can't get their heads round as the UN WIPO had already found in our favour on the more important top level .com domain.
We tried our best to explain it, but then neither can we even as their IT Consultants even understand it. Words fail us on it as it defies all logic.
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Did Morrigan really dance round her garden on hearing the news of her Victory?
Yes she did. On the 6th September 2007 we had been awaiting news from the UN WIPO in Geneva for many weeks. We had been wondering what was taking so long. So was morrigan who would contact us twice daily or more for news.
At about 6pm on the evening of the 6th we received an email from UN WIPO that looked like it was what we had been waiting for all this time. It was, it contained 2 or 3 attached word documents one of which was the extensive judgment.
This was read during a conference call between senior Webwordwizards Partners in Leicester and London. The news was as we expected. Victory.
We had won and had done so convincingly on all the main points of contention. The question was now... how to we break the news to Morrigan who had been asking to hear the news the moment it arrived no matter what time it was.
Due to her age, we decided to go over to her home outside of Leicester where we found her in her garden in the late summer sun with her grandchildren keeping her company.
Catching site of the bottle of Champagne we put on the garden table she knew immediately the news was as expected. 5 minutes later we were still trying to calm her down and stop her skipping and dancing around her garden with her grand children struggling to keep up.
Over the months of the battle we had repeatedly warned her it was quite possible to lose the case as we did the .co.uk a month later. There have been many odd decisions in domain disputes like all legal cases they are not exempt from bad rulings that sometimes can be overturned on appeal.
An appeal was out of the question for the wiccan group due to the pensioners limited means. So everything really was hanging on the initial ruling.
Its no wonder it took a sweet cup of strong tea for us to calm Mrs Wisecraft down who at that time had not been in good health of late with the worry perhaps but suddenly seemed quite recovered and transformed.
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Worldwide Press Coverage...
Reuters and the Press Association picked the story up on the 19th July 2007.
Webwordwizards had worked with our clients to produce a press release which was set up on the high cross quarter websites.
Even as late as Dec 2007 the ladies of the wiccan group and the dispute was still in the news. Morrigan Wisecraft was somewhat flattered and taken aback when we told her that her group was sharing the same headline as the Northern Rock collapse in the Leicester Mercury.
Image: Copyright Northcliffe Newspapers (Leicester Mercury)
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Leicester's Highcross Leicester as it is now known is without doubt a multi purpose development that any city would be proud to have and call its own. 
