I trust your lawyer will know better than I will about the trademark. I simply entered "firestorm software" into a search engine and got a product that's not yours, available since at least July 2017.
This site [1] has the general naming guidance and the existence of the other software may be of concern with some of the considerations. 1 - https://infra.apache.org/project-names.html On 5/16/22, 6:43 PM, "Saisai Shao" <sai.sai.s...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Daniel and Justin, Thanks for your reply. The trademark "firestorm" as a software has already been submitted the registration by Tencent in China, I'm not sure is that enough or not. Is there any guidance in ASF about naming or trademark things? I will consult this to our company lawyer. Thanks Jerry Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> 于2022年5月17日周二 05:59写道： > Hi, > > Sounds like an interesting project. I also think the name may be > problematic from a trademark point of view. It might be best to do a > trademark search as see if there are any issues. Changing the name is > difficult, but is much much harder if it needs to be done later. > > Kind Regards, > Justin > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
