+ [email protected] :) Regards, Alan
On Jun 12, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Leonidas Fegaras <[email protected]> wrote: > Could you please review the following search, which was used to establish > whether "Apache MRQL" is a suitable name. > It was posted by me on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-32 > Thank you, > Leonidas Fegaras > > > The US and EU trademark searches, and the Google search, suggest that the > project name MRQL does not conflict with a previously registered trademark. > More specifically, > > 1) I checked USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) at > http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp > using the Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) for a registered > trademark. The term I used was MRQL, meaning that "MRQL" could appear by > itself, or as a prefix or suffix to another trademark (by searching > "*MRQL*"). The search was performed for live and dead terms, for all fields: > owner name and address, serial number, and combined word mark. No matches > were found. > > 2) I searched the EU Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHIM), > at the Community Trademark Online database (CTM-ONLINE) > http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/pages/QPLUS/databases/searchCTM.en.do > and found 0 trade marks. > > 3) I did a web search on Google for "MRQL". From the first 100 hits, all > those links that do not refer to this MRQL project (pre-Apache or the > incubating one), do not refer to any other project or product. >
