On 01/05/2015 05:13 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: > You will not get any help from the ASF when ir comes to pick a name... As it > is virtually impossible to check in all the regions if the name is already > taken : we simply don't have the money/time/expertise to do that.
As I'm sure everyone here knows trademarks are specific to a product area. The fact that there is a product called ACME and it references a tire doesn't preclude someone else from using it for toothpaste. With that in mind I believe google is our friend. If we have a name we like, i.e. kirby, and the only hits we get are for vacuum cleaners, http://www.kirby.com/ ;-), then the name is still ok to use.
