Putting trademarks into the loop. Trademark people, any comments to Simones mail? I am not sure if a commonly used word like "Mayhem" can be a matter of an trademark
Thanks in advance, Christian On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: > Good morning President :) > > Gianugo pointed me to the homepage of Make Mayem[1] and I found a > trademarked software[2] which is called Mayhem as well. > Trademarkia shows that more than 10 pages of results of products are > registered with the name "Mayhem", which I suspect is a daily used > word in English language, especially in the US. > > Giving an overview: > > * _Make Mayhem_ is an application that lets you connect trigger > events to reactions. Unlike writing a program, you simply select an > event and a reaction, and then turn on the connection. Voila! No code > or app required. > > * _Mayhem_ is a computer software for use in the encryption and > decryption of digital files, including audio, video, text, binary, > still images, graphics and multimedia files > > * _Apache Mayhem_ aims to create a community focused on the > development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions > > My question - IANAL and don't aim to be :P - is: where the legal > issues comes out? We don't aim to "invade" someone else's domain... > If the Mayhem is a trademark by Grey Heron Technologies, LLC for a > software, aren't Outercurve's guys violating a TM? > > Sorry if asking silly questions, many thanks in advance! > best, > -Simo > > [1] http://www.makemayhem.com/ > [2] http://www.trademarkia.com/mayhem-85483903.html > [3] http://www.trademarkia.com/trademarks-search.aspx?tn=Mayhem > > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ > http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ > http://twitter.com/simonetripodi > http://www.99soft.org/ > > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: >> Different topic: Is there a potential naming/trademark >> issue related to a pre-existing project? >> >> http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/InnovatorsGallery/Mayhem >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
