Who owns the trademark? TeamOOo?
Daniel.
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
All,
OpenOffice.org is very pleased to announce that through the pro-bono
work of the Law Firm of Oppedahl & Olson, LLP, we have received
trademark protection in the US and we can now use OpenOffice.org®. You
know, OpenOffice.org with the registered trademark symbol. Of course,
the symbol should only be used for official communication and at that,
sparingly--but informatively. The trademark protection will help us in
several areas, such as with CDROM and other distribution problems.
Today's announcement regarding OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 is the first to use
the official ®.
Our thanks to Carl Oppedahl and his team for making this possible! Team
OpenOffice.org and I acted on behalf of OpenOffice.org. We followed the
repeatedly expressed wishes of the community and also common sense.
As mentioned, the trademark protection extends for right now just to
the United States, though we are pursuing international trademark
protection. We have acted on this--getting OpenOffice.org
trademarked--with some discretion because we didn't want to broadcast
our vulnerabilities too much.
The history of OOo's trademark is long and varied. We've sometimes had
it, sometimes not. In countries like Brazil, we do not evidently have
it, and as a consequence, the Brazilian group have had to distribute
OOo under a different name. Let's see to it that such unfortunate
situations do not occur again.
Cheers,
Louis
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