Ah, but, if they went after any old thing with 'java' in the name, they would be. As I understand it, Sun pretty much went to JavaPolis, told them that all they had to do was sign a document that hardly limited them, but officialised the use of the trademark - in effect immunizing sun against any possibility to claim the existence of javapolis proves they didn't defend the trademark. Sun would flip it around: They DID defend their trademark, and they made javapolis sign a contract legitimizing their usage of the trademark and stipulating what they could and could not do with it.
Standard practice for this problem, by the way: Just give a bunch of high fliers a free contract with hardly any stipulations. Everybody happy. However, javapolis didn't take the deal, probably because they were already considering a rename. That's all. On Sep 19, 10:07 am, BoD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I stand corrected :) > But at the same time, I'm still not completely convinced the same thing > could really happen to the Java mark and it feels like they're > overreacting. But maybe it's just me! > > BoD > > Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > Apologies for making you eat those words BoD, but: --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
