Hi all.
We received a Cease and Desist letter from a law firm representing The Tetris
Company, which holds the trademark TETRIS. They claim our Tetrox plugin
infringes on their trademark Tetris and demand we remove it.
After consulting US and Swedish lawyers, I have decided to abide them by
Oh well, I preferred the name Rockblox anyway :)It is a worry though, these increasing claims - how long will it be before one of the many users of the word Rockbox (or similar) come after us - or do we have some kind of immunity on that one?
I'm pretty sure that the RB team could prove precedence
through first usage (all it'd take is a quick few Internet Archive searches and
a choice few Google searches to cull relevant statistical information as to when
the name 'Rockbox' was first used)...
... I like Rockblox better than
On 20/09/06, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm pretty sure that the RB team could prove precedence through first usage
(all it'd take is a quick few Internet Archive searches and a choice few
Google searches to cull relevant statistical information as to when the name
'Rockbox'
About a couple weeks ago after Rockbox appeared in one the online mags
(pc-mag?) I suspected that this would start happening if rb mattered too
much. Now it's for real!
Has this sort of thing occurred before?
- Original Message -
From: Björn Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Michael Sevakis said:
About a couple weeks ago after Rockbox appeared in one the online mags
(pc-mag?) I suspected that this would start happening if rb mattered too
much. Now it's for real!
Has this sort of thing occurred before?
See WWF (renaming of, copyright infringement)...
Looks like the
Michael Sevakis said:
I wasn't speaking of the World Wrestling Federation :) but re: Rockbox. As
I
understand the same names can be used if not to indicate the same thing, at
least in the US. Dumb example: Foo Meat Packing, Inc. and Foo
Manufacturing,
Inc. aren't nescessarily in conflict.
Well, hopefully this will help someone figure out how to get the
bootloader onto the 5.5G. It's the boot partition from my 5.5G 30GB iPod
Video.
http://kalthare.dyndns.org/ipod-video-5.5g-boot.zip
It's a fifteen megabyte zipfile, and the decompressed partition is about
a hundred megs.
-- Rob
