Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > As I understand it, once the trademark registration is confirmed (no > > matter who to), unauthorised commercial use of the mark becomes a > > criminal act punishable by unlimited fines and up to 10 years prison. > > Has a written license been granted, or are you expecting people not to > > call it OSM any more? > > Has anyone been contacted by OSMF's lawyers regarding trademark use?
Doesn't being a criminal act mean that the state can investigate (and prosecute) without waiting for OSMF's lawyers to act? [...] > But guidelines on trademark use would be good. In particular, the OSM > trademark should serve the traditional purpose for trademarks of > protecting consumers from inferior knock-offs. > e.g - http://www.debian.org/trademark Yes and I feel the OpenJDK Trademark Notice would be a more complete example. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
