well some good news I think I did a few searches at http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp http://www.copyright.gov/ http://www.uspto.gov/patents/index.jsp http://www.uspto.gov/ip/index.jsp All 4 have no results for mageia so it looks like he only has the rights to mageia.com and possibly the Isn't is magic he has on his website... no clue if any search would produce a result if pending. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Bornath" <[email protected]> To: "Mageia general discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:30:44 PM Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts
2010/9/21 atilla ontas <[email protected]>: > Im a lawyer, altough i dont know US or EU laws; i think it will be a > legal problem like Mandrake name case. We should immediately need to > consider this. Also even name is not a legal matter than domain names > could be give us headache. Yes, it depends on the company and if there is an underpaid lawyer around (no offense meant, atilla). A friend owning 'mobilix.de', dealing with Linux on mobile devices was sued by the company which has the right son the famous "Asterix" comics, where the second main character is named "Obelix". He lost the case all the way up to the highest court although comics have nothing in common with serious computer work (oh, ok, except UserFriendly).. _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss
