Hi Jeff - inlined: On 11 Oct 2012, at 18:33, Jeff Genender wrote:
> Cool report… just a quick note about the trademarks. > > Apache has what is known as "common law" trademark. You cannot use the "R" > symbol unless it is registered as a trademark with the USPTO. According to > the USPTO, the trademark currently belongs to "LogicBlaze" of which I believe > the common law trademark by Apache trumps it and if fought in court, Apache > would likely win (incubation occurred in 2005 and the registered trademark > occurred in 2006). Since LogicBlaze was acquired in the following order... > > Logicblaze -> IONA -> Progress -> RedHat > > It would stand to reason that RedHat would probably be the official owner of > this trademark and Apache would probably need to get the ownership > transferred. LogicBlaze (Winston) supposedly gave the trade mark for ActiveMQ and ServiceMix to the ASF. Iona asked for the paper work for this transaction but there isn't any - and the trademarks were not actually acquired by IONA (because LogicBlaze no longer owned them). I suspect that the paper got left in a bar of in some ones bottom draw. cheers, Rob
