On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:37:13 -0600 Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> wrote:
> On 14-12-07 06:37 AM, Martin Schröder wrote: > > Is OpenBSD actually a registered trademark? The USPTO doesn't list > > it. FreeBSD is, though. > The answer appears to be "no", as CIPO doesn't list it, either. > My guess is that keeping the lights on (literally) was a higher > priority than paying the annual registration fee. > > I'm reasonably confident that if someone were to step up to not only > fund the trademark application (looks like >$500/yr /in perpetuity/ > in IPO fees alone???), but find a trademark agent willing to do the > work /pro bono/, and spend the time filling out the paperwork, etc. > etc., etc. then it could probably happen fairly rapidly. It's not $500/year. You need to pay a registration fee, then I think 5 or 6 years later submit an application that you're still using it, then every 10 years after that, renew. Something like that, anyway. IIRC each of these is somewhere in the $500 ballpark, but they don't happen every year. Legal fees vary according to difficulty. "Obshrenkoroid" would be much easier to trademark than "Troubleshooters.Com" (reg #s 2984611 and 2210851), which in turn is much easier to trademark than "Radio". I'd imagine a resourceful person could read a bunch of trademark apps on USPTO.gov, and then do the "Obshrenkoroid" trademark him/herself. I'd imagine that you'd need some pretty good lawyers spending a lot of time to trademark "Radio" for almost any purpose. I spoze theoretically you could trademark Radio brand dog food, but it wouldn't be easy. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
