The USPTO won't let you trademark something that sounds like something that already has a trademark, so since Z/LINUX is trademarked you can't trademark (or use) zLinux, ZLINUX, z/Linux, etc.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian France [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: term "zLinux" copyrighted by whom? Mark, et al, I see the word mark is "Z/LINUX". A capital Z, not a little z. Does that matter? Just curious... At 11:50 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote: >Well, it didn't take all that long to find this: >http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=eut3tj.2.14 > > >Mark Post > >-----Original Message----- >From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike >Walter >Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:36 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: term "zLinux" copyrighted by whom? > > >Jim and Mark, > >I often hear that some name is copyrighted or trademarked, but when >searching don't find evidence of such claim. Maybe making the claim is >enough to scare off would-be users. I've been dealing with another name >(completely off-subject) which has been in use for 75 or so years, but which >was never copyrighted or trademarked by anyone, much less the claiming >organization (at least my searches find no evidence of such action - but >them I'm not a copyright or trademark attorney). > >"zLinux" didn't turn up when searching the following sites, either. Maybe >it's pending. If not, maybe whomever beats a path to the Copyright Office >could claim it? The sites are: > >http://www.copyright.gov/records/ http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm > >Mike Walter >Hewitt Associates >In reply to:The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. > >-------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:08:48 -0700 >From: Jim Sibley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: term "zLinux" copyrighted by whom? > >The official Big Blue legal position on the term >"zLinux" is that it is copyrighted by "another >company" and one should use the terms "Linux for >zSeries" or "Linux for s/390". > >Anyone know who the other company is? > >===== >Jim Sibley >RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries > >"Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs >http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email >to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > >------------------------------ > >Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:15:33 -0400 >From: "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: term "zLinux" copyrighted by whom? > >Turbolinux > > >Mark Post > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email >to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Brian W. France Systems Engineer I Pennsylvania State University Administrative Information Services - Infrastructure/Sysarc Rm 25 Shields Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802 814-863-4739 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
