I had extensive discussions with Daniel Shahaf and Mark Thomas at
tradema...@apache.org. The emails should be available in the
tradema...@apache.org mail history for the data December 17-18, 2019.
The title of the thread is "NuttX Incubator Project". I don't have
access to that mail list, but that is where people who do have access
could find the original emails that confirm the following:
The bottom line:
1. I hold the trademark to the name NuttX (and will donate that to the
ASF when the project graduates). That gives us exclusive rights to use
the name NuttX for system software. An fully exhaustive (and expensive)
name search was done by attornyes at that time. This project is the one
and only project in the world named NuttX and the trademark prohibits
anyone else from using that name.
2. I have been using that name with the project since Februaray 2007 and
even if I did not hold the exclusive trademark on the name, the project
would be permit to use the name in any case because of "prior usage"
It is fully trademarked and a legal name search has already been done, I
think we have completed this action. A periodic name search would still
be good, but not to verify our right to use the name, but to assure that
no one else is using the name improperly. We would have to sue them for
infringement if that were the case.
Greg
Basically the important things from my discuss
Greg had an extensive discussion with the Apache team on the name
before joining the incubator. He has done what's necessary to protect
the name. We should be set, however, I'm not sure if there is any
other ASF procedure.
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:02 PM Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> wrote:
I noticed that our Whimsy page [1] has this to say about a podling name search:
"No Podling Name Search on file"
What do we need to do to check this off our TODO list?
[1] https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/ppmc/nuttx
Thanks,
Nathan
