+1 2010/12/2 William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net>
> On 11/23/2010 8:11 PM, James Purser wrote: > > While Google owns the Google Wave trademark, they don't own the very > generic > > "Wave". > > > > Apache Wave will be a separate thing and unaffected by any trademark that > > Google owns. > > Wrong. The ASF is always affected by other's Trademarks, which is why we > simply don't use them. These can be either Registered Marks or > unregistered > but well known marks. Wave is now a very well known mark. > > Look, it's simple enough for Google Legal to state that it unconditionally > licenses the of the "Apache Wave" name to the ASF at no cost, retaining all > claims to "Google Wave" and the Google Wave graphic. Of for Google Legal > to simply disclaim all rights or interests in the "Wave" mark, alone. > > The fact is that Wave itself is not a strong mark. But used *in the same > space* as Google Wave, e.g. if Skype introduced Skype Wave to do something > very similar, Google would find itself on strong ground to contest the use > of their [unregistered] mark. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
