On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, kevin granade wrote:
From a trademark POV, all the suggested names suffer from the major problem of incorporating the trademark in the name. (see AOL v GAIM) I know in this situation it is relatively safe to assume the trademark holder isn't hostile, but I would still think it would be very desirable to have a name that doesn't technically infringe the trademark.
Good point, thanks for pointing this out. We should keep this in mind. However, I agree with your remark on the trademark holder's hostility, and also think that the substring 'ion' is the suffix of so many words in English, that unless we hyphenate it (like "not-ion") or refer to ion3 (like "notion3"), we should be okay.
