Citation needed, can you point to evidence of this? Also ... this has nothing do with Liblime trying to trademark Koha in NZ.

Ask them.

If you think domain ownership and trademark have no bearing upon each other, I can't help you.

Because this is about the NZ trademark.

http://elliottbledsoe.com/2011/11/keep-koha-trademark-open-s...

Yes, but why does that matter?

I understand that the author is from NZ, and the software originated there, but surely the time to object was when the original (presumably US?) trademark was issued? Or at least some outrage could have been expressed at that point?

How are the Horowhenua Library Trust meant to know when the US trademark is issued? I can't imagine they're keeping an extremely close eye on all the trademarks being issued over there.

The author of the blog post clearly follows the field.

In their own country, of course they do, im not sure why you are so set on straw manning, but hey, whatever floats your boat

The first trademark was issued in Europe. BibLibre were responsible stewards and thus no objection was raised at that point. They acted as they stated they would: they applied for the TM on our behalf, received it, and were generous enough to sign it over to HLT at their expense.

Outrage was expressed over the US trademark and still is to the current day. It would be interesting to see how US courts find in this department.