Chris Ilias wrote: > On 8/28/07 2:30 PM, _Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla_ spoke > thusly: >>> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote: >>>> I was reading https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330053#c49 >>>> and have two simple questions: >>>> >>>> 1) who is the legal trademark owner of "Mozilla".
The Mozilla Foundation is the owner of the "Mozilla" marks (i.e., the word mark "Mozilla" and the Mozilla "red dinosaur" logo). >>>> 2) Can the agreement, referred to in the above link, be read >>>> somewhere on the Internet, or is it possible to get a copy of this >>>> agreement? I wasn't involved in the original formation of the SeaMonkey project, but to my knowledge there wasn't a formal legal agreement of any sort relating to use of "Mozilla" in conjunction with "SeaMonkey". It was likely more of an understanding that the use of the "Mozilla" mark was to be reserved for products like Firefox and Thunderbird that had official Mozilla Foundation endorsement. As a personal opinion, I think that the use of "Mozilla" as part of product names is somewhat of an anachronism. IIRC, with products like Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator the use of "Netscape" as part of the product name was necessary because names like "Navigator" and "Communicator" were too generic to be used as trademarks on their own. Ditto for "Mozilla Suite". However "SeaMonkey" is already registered as a trademark on its own, and thus doesn't really need "Mozilla" in front of it. Frank _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
