> -----Original Message----- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:n...@devtech.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 19 January 2010 12:51 PM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Handling of Traffic Server Trademark > > Leif Hedstrom wrote: > > > Traffic Server would like to resolve the TradeMark issues. > > Who would be able to make this call? > > The relevant content is: > > > Y! holds several TMs for the name "Traffic Server", most of which > > expires soon. Our legal team has proposed two possible solutions, > > the first being the easiest for us. > > > 1. Yahoo! provides ASF with a letter of assurance stating that we > > own all right, title and interest in and to the TRAFFIC SERVER > > mark and the four active registrations and that we will not > take > > any action against ASF or any of its licensees during the life > of > > these registrations (and we'd express our intention of letting > > them lapse and expire in this letter). > > > 2. Yahoo! will assign all right, title and interest in and to the > > TRAFFIC SERVER mark including the four active registrations to > > ASF [though we'd probably want to make this contingent on > getting > > through the incubator stage]. > > We can run this through Apache Legal, but my take is that we'd prefer > option > #2, which is the same route that I believe was previously used for > SpamAssassin. > > One issue, as I understand it, is that the ASF probably should not be > letting marks lapse, and should be maintaining them. But those aspects > ought to be ASF-wide, and would come from Apache Legal. > > Does anyone else have an opinion? Please do offer it. :-)
Can I suggest this question gets asked on tradema...@apache.org list. I believe all trademark issues should go there, if needed they would refer to legal as and when. I haven't followed the history of this thread, so don't know if http://apache.org/foundation/marks/ has been pointed to yet. Gav... > > --- Noel > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
