On 11/10/06, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe trademarks are registered and the owner needs to control use
> of the mark or they can lose the trademark status.
UK Patent Office:
> Your trade mark does not have to be registered but
> an unregistered mark will rely on the common la
On 11/10/06, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure its only copyright that's automatic, not trademarks.
That's correct.
> I believe trademarks are registered and the owner needs to control use
> of the mark or they can lose the trademark status. Kleenex had this
> problem m
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 21:56 +0100, Daniel Taylor wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On a tangent, aren't trademarks automatic? How does this affect other
> > packages, if I produce an application does that mean I can force
> > distros to renam
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On a tangent, aren't trademarks automatic? How does this affect other
> packages, if I produce an application does that mean I can force
> distros to rename it, and is the policy on trademark to ignore i till
> someone compla
you might want to take a look at this article
( http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/09/1434251 ) to see how
thunderbird escaped the wrath of trademark issues.
"If any of this sounds faintly familiar, it may be because a similar
issue arose prior to the last Debian version release, Sarge, and
Hi
I'm sure by now everyone has heard about the issue between Debain and
Mozilla over the use of the name FireFox. It looks like they are going
to go ahead with a switch.
I was just wondering if this is going to affect Thunderbird? Isn't
Thunderbird under trademark the same way FireFox is? The co
