On 24 November 2011 10:09, Kåre Fiedler Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: > So, a press release from LibLime states the following: > > "Another one of the assets acquired in the purchase of LibLime was an > application for the trademark of the term Koha as it applies to ILS software > in New Zealand. That application has now been accepted. PTFS/LibLime will > hold that trademark in trust as well, and will not enforce it in order to > insure that no individual, organization, or company will be prohibited from > promoting their services around Koha in New Zealand. > > PTFS/LibLime is prepared to transfer the trademark to a non-profit Koha > Foundation with the provision that the Foundation hold the trademark in trust > and not enforce it against any individual, organization, or company who > chooses to promote services around Koha in New Zealand. PTFS/LibLime > encourages a direct dialog with Koha stakeholders to determine an equitable > solution for the disposition of the trademark that serves the best interests > of the libraries who use Koha." > > That sounds promising. Has LibLime seen reason, or am I misinterpreting > things? > This sounds even more promising
http://diligentroom.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/the-exemplar-of-stupid-koha-vs-liblime-trademark/#comment-1761 >From Liblime: "Here’s PTFS/LibLime’s press release about the matter: http://www.liblime.com/ptfsliblime-granted-provisional-use-of-koha-trademark-in-new-zealand The TL;DR is: this was inherited—by surprise—from the previous owners. We don’t know their intentions then, but we know ours now. We’ll hand the NZ trademark off to a non-profit (including HLT) who agrees to continue our practice of protecting non-exclusive use of the name." So now they can sign the application over to HLT who I am sure can make that promise and we can have this thing resolved in a couple of days. (HLT has been elected by the community to hold community property in trust (after the koha.org mess), as the they are a not for profit Trust, and Biblibre had transferred the EU TM to them already, so it makes perfect sense to just transfer the application to them, problem solved.) Chris
