> Exactly. Same for Belgium;
> Also, a US trademark as far as I know has no meaning in Europe unless it was
> also registered in the European trademark organization.
>
If there actually were a trademark conflict, it could have affectes even
in Europe, sure! For example, you would have to check where the website
is hosted, make sure that no visitor from the U.S. could visit a
European website that violates the name, etc.. If you ignore that,
members of the foundation could be rejected entrance into U.S. territory
and more. Also, the U.S. and most European countries have some kind of
mutual agreements regarding to court verdicts etc.. So I wouldn't
completely reject the apprehension.
Anyway, I don't agree with David Lyon either - the quoted class is quite
harmless. Whatever name you choose these days, you'll always find
someone with similar names. And here, one thing is an end-user
application, the other thing is a developer application - two totally
different target audiences, so there's no danger of confusion at all. In
this case, the proper approach would be to approach the owner of
software trademarks and set up an informal one page letter that one will
honor each others mark (e.g. the Lazarus IDE will never be extended to
be some kind of student management, and the Lazarus foundation would
never sell wines, trademark 77069709 etc.).
But again - there'll ALWAYS be someone who might feel his trademark was
violated.
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