On Jan 11, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
From: Ralph Goers [mailto:[email protected]]
Has anyone from Jupiter contacted Apache about a problem? Based on
the
research that has been done I don't see this as an obvious
infringement. If the project has been around for 4 years without
complaint I don't think it is worth the time and effort to worry
about
things Juniper may or may not choose to do in the future. If their
claim is on J-Security one could argue that that is not the same as
JSecurity anyway.
They don't claim J-Security as a trademark [1]. Further, they don't
have any
products with J-Security in the name. The only place I coud find it
as the
name of their research lab.
I say register the trademark JSecurity, as a Java security framework
and
move on.
Mark
[1] http://www.juniper.net/footerlegal.html#05
Here's a good point. I just did a search on http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
.
There are no marks on J-Security or JSecurity. I would imagine that
anyone who attempted to get that mark would be be too intimidated by
all the other JSecurity usages out there.
I guess I'm starting to change my mind. In light of the fact that J-
Security, or anyone else for that matter, never held a mark and so it
prior use by them doesn't matter, would the other mentors reconsider
their vote?
Regards,
Alan
