On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31.05.2009 07:21, Joseph Smith wrote: >> On Sat, 30 May 2009 23:25:32 -0400, Robinson Tryon >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It looks like the NTT Data company made an announcement in 2007 about >>> their "CoreBoot" thin client: >>> >>> http://www.nttdata.co.jp/en/media/2007/062500.html >>> >>> >>> "LinuxBIOS" was rebranded "coreboot" at the very beginning of 2008: >>> >> Well that is not good news.... >> > > Fortunately, coreboot is a registered trademark of coresystems (Stefan's > company) since 2007. The LinuxBIOS->coreboot name change was made long > after the trademark had been registered, so I think we're safe.
Oh, okay, good. I tried to find out when NTT first mentioned their products, and the earliest date I can find NTT CoreBoot mentioned is June 25th, 2007: http://www.nttdata.co.jp/en/media/2007/062500.html http://www2.rbbtoday.com/news/20070625/42961.html Coresystems GmbH filed for registration of "coreboot" with the USPTO on September 20, 2007: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4001:6tn175.2.1 I'm not a lawyer or anything, so I don't really know about how who-did-what-on-which-date matters. I assume as long as people don't confuse the two products, then everything is fine. --R -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
