Quoting Steve Litt ([email protected]): > Here's why I wouldn't use Palemoon if it were the last browser on earth: > https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86 > > By the way, a little research on USPTO shows they have no registered > trademark on "Palemoon". For somebody so lawyerly threatening, he sure > hasn't dotted his i's and crossed his t's.
1. Are you aware that there are a number of other commercially significant trademark registries aside from USPTO? FWIW, lead developer M.C. Straver appears to be in the Netherlands. So, for example, the first place to look for relevant trademark registrations would be the European Union Intellectual Property Office, not USPTO. (Don't be another one of those 'Murricans who embarrass me by implicitly assuming that nothing outside the USA counts. Tusen takk, venn.) 2. Please, before addressing these subjects again, make sure you understand the concept of common-law trademark, which it's obvious you currently do not. https://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/common.html In case they are useful, here are a set of notes about trademark law I compiled while spearheading _Linux Gazette's_ (successful) trademark dispute against the magazine's former Web host, SSC, Inc. (then the publisher of _Linux Journal_: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/trademark-law.html http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/trademark-law.add It's somewhat painful to see Linux users blunder into this subject repeatedly and make elementary gaffes like assuming that a trademark has no force if not evidenced by a current 10-year registration at USPTO. As an aside, if anyone wished to sidestep M.C. Straver's trademark-based encumbrances entirely, it would more than suffice to use a slightly different name and logo / trade-dress stylings. (This is what the CentOS Project does, along with other RHEL rebuilds such as Scientific Linux). So, why waste time ranting against Straver being possessive about his branding, when the branding is in no way essential to the codebase? Isn't that a waste of your and everyone else's time, Steve? And, for gosh sakes, spend a few minutes to learn some real trademark law, already. Please. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
