Thanks for the clarification Jeff! Does the ASF do the registered trademark think for it's other projects?
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Jeff Genender <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Hiram, > > I can help answer the trademark issue. > > You aren't supposed to use ® unless the trademark is officially registered > with the USPTO. According the the USPTO, it was owned by LogicBlaze, but > the trademark was never renewed and its considered "Dead", which means its > up for grabs. If you want to get it officially registered, you may reclaim > it and its a 10 week to 6 month process. The cost is about $300 if you do > it pro-se, but you need to have your ducks in a row if you do it without a > lawyer. You can use ™ since it means its an unregistered trademark and > Apache certainly owns it via common law. > > IANAL (obviously), but I went through some of this last year in securing a > trademark for my company. It ended up costing me about $350.00 pro-se (had > to pay $50 fee because I missed a thing or two from a legal perspective and > had to refile). > > Jeff > > > On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Hiram Chirino <[email protected]> wrote: > > TLP Description: > > Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server. > Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and > Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many > advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. > > Community: > * The development and user lists continue to stay active. > > Development: > * Migration to svnpubsub was completed. > * Development on ActiveMQ 5.9 is underway > > Trademark / Branding Status: > > * The activemq.org and activemq.com TLD's are owned by other entities > * Need to investiate if we should be using (R) instead of (TM) for the > ActiveMQ mark > * Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also compliant > * Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance > > Releases: > > * Apache ActiveMQ-CPP 3.6.0 (Mar 7/2013) > * Apache Apollo 1.6 (Feb 25/2013) > * Apache ActiveMQ 5.8.0 (Feb 11/2013) > > -- > > ** > *Hiram Chirino* > *Engineering | Red Hat, Inc.* > *[email protected] <[email protected]> | fusesource.com | redhat.com* > *skype: hiramchirino | twitter: @hiramchirino<http://twitter.com/hiramchirino> > * > *blog: Hiram Chirino's Bit Mojo <http://hiramchirino.com/blog/>* > > > -- ** *Hiram Chirino* *Engineering | Red Hat, Inc.* *[email protected] <[email protected]> | fusesource.com | redhat.com* *skype: hiramchirino | twitter: @hiramchirino<http://twitter.com/hiramchirino> * *blog: Hiram Chirino's Bit Mojo <http://hiramchirino.com/blog/>*
