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Richard Eckart de Castilho commented on UIMA-2556:
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It appears that "Pelikan Text-Marker" had been trademarked but not extended and
did not apply for software [1].
It appears to me that the German preference to call marker pens "Textmarker"
comes from that product (cf. "Tempo" for paper tissues). In other countries,
apparently other names are more popular [2].
"TextMarker!" is a Firefox Plugin [3].
"Textmarker" appears to be a function in the German version of Microsoft Office
[4].
I am by no means a legal expert, but it appears that the term has become
commonplace in German and appears to be no longer protected (at least in the
"pen" sector). A search on Google reveals that products by different vendors
(e.g, Pelikan, Stabilo, Edding, etc.) are advertised as "Textmarker". They
carry additional trademarked names such as "BOSS", "Textsurfer", "NAVIGATOR",
etc.
[1] http://www.trademarkia.com/pelikan-textmarker-73573924.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker_pen
[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/textmarker/
[4] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828507/de
> Do ip-clearance for TextMarker
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>
> Key: UIMA-2556
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2556
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: TextMarker
> Reporter: Marshall Schor
> Assignee: Peter Klügl
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: textmarker.xml
>
>
> TextMarker is a large contribution that came in under a software grant, and
> is now nearing a release; we need to do the ASF official IP clearance process
> for this.
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