> However, "APRS" is trademarked by Bob Bruninga, so you probably ought
> not call your software "APRS"-anything, and probably ought not even claim
> that it receives "APRS" packets, without a license from Bob.
You're right in that you shouldn't call your software something with APRS in
the name, but you can claim that it receives APRS packets without violating
any trademark. For instance, consider a word processor that claims on its
box "Opens Microsoft Word files!" -- there's no problem with that. Same as
if you said "Receives (opens?) APRS packets (files?)"
Things like "APRSnet" would be bad, but "GeoNet for APRS" would be fine.
(Most of the above is pretty much from cooperative application programs from
the trademark lawyers at Oracle and SAP. I'm figuring that they knew what
they were talking about.)
Walter Rice
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