On 5/30/12 10:01 PM, William Stein wrote:
So... is anybody opposed to University of Washington become the
(temporary) register of the Sage trademark?
I was going to ask how you were going to determine if the Sage
development community agreed with the action, but then I saw that you
worded the question negatively (does anyone have an objection). Still,
can you put a time limit on the call for objections so that there is a
specific something you can point to if ever a problem arises? I'd
suggest of time limit of at least a week, and possibly longer, if it
makes the lawyers happy.
I'm also really curious about the answers to Justin Walker's questions.
Also, as far as the trademark being sold back to you, can you get it in
writing that you can initiate that transaction (i.e., they have to sell
it immediately to you if you formally request to buy it for the agreed
cost)? It seems that if they just agree to some vague "sure, we'll sell
it back to you", that opens it up to lots of complications if there are
bad feelings between you and UW.
In general, I'm +1 on having real lawyers do the paperwork, and real
lawyers defending the trademark, but I just want to make sure there
aren't foreseeable hiccups in real lawyers preventing us from using it.
Thanks,
Jason
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