WARNING. The ApacheOpenOffice. Org site described in this exchange is a malicious site. DO NOT INVESTIGATE.
- Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] > Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 02:08 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve? (long) > > On 2016-09-06 17:06 (+0100), Simos Xenitellis > <simos.li...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Just responding to these specific bits with my Apache Brand Management > Committee member hat on. > > > which claims that the Apache Foundation has the Apache OpenOffice™ > and > > OpenOffice.org®. > > However, my search at the US Trademark database does not show an > > "Apache OpenOffice" registered trademark. > > Which is as expected. Note the TM. That denotes that "Apache OpenOffice" > is a trademark, just not a registered one. It is a gross simplification > but, for the ASF, it makes little/no difference to our rights whether it > is registered or not. Registration does make it easier to enforce > compliance should the trademark be infringed. > > > It does show a live trademark for the old "OpenOffice.org" and also > > for "LibreOffice" (for The Document Foundation). > > But no "Apache OpenOffice". > > Anyone can file for a trademark for "Apache OpenOffice", as they have > > done already with the domain "ApacheOpenOffice.org". > > If someone other than the ASF tried to register "Apache OpenOffice" as a > trademark we would oppose that registration and I am very confident we > would be successful. > > Domain registration is not trademark registration. > > The registration of ApacheOpenOffice.org looks to be abusive. The Apache > OpenOffice PMC has some options for dealing with that. How they wish to > proceed is a decision for them. Note that such issues are generally > dealt with in private, not public, so you are unlikely to see a > discussion about what to do about this specific issue on a public ASF > mailing list. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
