On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > 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.
The attorney who is currently working on this is leaving UW in 2 weeks. It could take a long time after that, due to them having to hire a new person, him/her get up to speed, etc. > I'm also really curious about the answers to Justin Walker's questions. Jason: "I think this is a good idea, as long as we understand what the impact would be if, say, you decided that the University of Wisconsin were a more inviting place to do research and teaching, before the work to settle the trademark issues was complete." That won't happen, since the work should only take a few weeks, max. The question only makes sense if "work to settle the trademark issue" takes months or years. > 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. I will see what I can do. > 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 > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
