I think the organization doesn't normally do the registration with the USPTO, although I think they might have done it for a few in the past. This may be a board question as I don't really know. Just my thought from seeing different trademark emails go by over the years.
Jeff On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Hiram Chirino <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] | fusesource.com | redhat.com >> skype: hiramchirino | twitter: @hiramchirino >> blog: Hiram Chirino's Bit Mojo >> > > > > > -- > > Hiram Chirino > Engineering | Red Hat, Inc. > [email protected] | fusesource.com | redhat.com > skype: hiramchirino | twitter: @hiramchirino > blog: Hiram Chirino's Bit Mojo >
