Companies like Apple and General Electric would be disappointed to hear
that. I think you meant that dictionary words can't be trademarked where
those words are clearly descriptive of the goods and services in association
with which they are associated.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Suffield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <debian-legal@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Free Debian logos? [was: Re: GUADEC report]
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:34:08PM +0100, Lewis Jardine wrote:
> Josh Triplett wrote:
> >A Free logo would be usable unmodified as the
> >logo for another project or website. That would probably cause
> >confusion with Debian, but it is a legitimate use for a Free logo.
> >
> >- Josh Triplett
> Trademarks are fundamentally different from copyrights. Things which are
> too small for copyright protection (dictionary words ('windows', 'shell'
> for example), geometric symbols, etc.) are still trademarkable.
You cannot trademark a dictionary word. Microsoft *lost* that lawsuit.
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