On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:25 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Thank you. Can someone with the proper access to Whimsy make whatever change is needed to check this off the list? Thanks, Nathan
