On Dec 19, 2003, at 1:11 PM, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Siva wrote:But i found that a company called as "Apex Data Systems"
http://www.apexdatasystems.com/index.html has a product called as
Geronimo. Will it be a trademark violation if we use the same name? Can
some one throw more light?
Not really, it's in a different segment. When the group of us first
started using the term "Apache", there was already at least one video game
using "Apache" in its name, and one hardware vendor as well. The
trademark, whether registered or not, wouldn't be on "Apache" or
"Geronimo" by itself anyways. It would be on "Apache HTTP Server",
"Apache Software Foundation", etc; so we really should be thinking of the
trademarkable entity here being something like "Apache Geronimo" or, more
defensibly, "Geronimo Application Server". Note that "Geronimo J2EE
Server" would not be something we could use, since J2EE is Sun's
trademark.
We actually could use that, as we have a trademark license for J2EE now with the ASF as an <trumpet>Official Licensee</trumpet>. However, I can't imagine anyone would want to add "J2EE" to the name, as I'm sure we'd spend a bit of time worrying about correct usage by people bundling the thing into distros.
geir
Brian
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