That's actually very interesting imo. I was going through the Gnu gpl but I
can't figure out if it has anything to do with registered trademarks.
- Original Message -
From: Björn Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.systems.archos.rockbox.devel
Sent: Tuesday, September
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.
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Mike Holden wrote:
Apple and Apple are prime examples of how this works in the real world.
Apple records sold records, and Apple corp made computers and software.
However in the modern global multimedia market, both are treading on each
other's toes quite a lot in terms
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?
Tetrox too, it's way
catchier. :D
From: Will Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 September 2006 00:38To: Rockbox
developmentSubject: Re: Tetrox renamed to Rockblox, for trademark
reasons
Oh well, I preferred the name Rockblox anyway :)It is a worry
though, these increasing claims - how
' was first used)...
... I like Rockblox better than Tetrox too, it's way catchier. :D
From: Will Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 September 2006 00:38
To: Rockbox development
Subject: Re: Tetrox renamed to Rockblox, for trademark reasons
Oh well, I
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.
