David Lyon wrote:
Marc Weustink wrote:
As one of the early Lazarus developers, I feel the time to react.
Hi Marc,
Well I will be as polite as I possibly can :-)
I'm going to try to answer your questions... but the answers are a bit
dark...
sorry for that in advance
IMO, a foundation is for supporting lazarus and not for marketing.
IMO, the foundations should not be called Lazarus but something
related to lazarus.
That's fine.
again IMO, I don't see the need for trademarking the name lazarus.
We're not selling a product. We're creating it.
The problem is that somebody else somewhere else already has paid the
government for the rights in the market to use the name.
Creating is ok. Giving it away to the public though might be illegal.
I will try to explain with a simple explanation..
Say a fellow, let's call him Hans, has a clever moment one day and adds
a motor to a push-bike... brilliant...
Aren't we mixing patents and trademarks here ?
Nothing wrong so far....
He spends months working on that bike and one night at 1.45am he paints
on the side of the bike.... bmw.....
[snip]
What Hans has been doing is making something and giving it away to the
public using somebody elses trademark.
it is clear to me that your not allowed to use and existing brandname in
the same class) to label your products.
The Trademark owner spends 70 euros and gets an order from the local
court to shut Hans down.
But it gets worse. They do some dodgy numbers and try to run it by the
judge.
This still has te be proven, and here in the Netherlands, I won't feat
that. However I realize now that the trial can be held at anyplace in
the world where the name is trademarked.
Would it stop me, no.
:-)
how much is a trademark in europe again ? split amonst how many people ?
seems rather cheap to me... price of a bus ticket isn't it ?
yes, but who will be the legal entity owning the trademark ?
It isn't that simple.
Marc
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