> > On Nov 14, 2007, at 16:04, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > >> If we went to the trademark lawyers first we'd have higher assurance >> that nobody else was using the name > > Which trademark lawyers would those be, who is going to pay them and > with what? The cost of a full cycle of legally reliable trademark > searches and registrations through lawyers in this space can reach > $250k.
My law firm is Deeth Williams Wall LLP in Canada and I recall one very interesting hour in which I had three lawyers in the room at $300 an hour and that was just to get the beginnings of a discussion going. These lawyers will then send in invoices via their billing department which include all manner of things from research costs to copy costs. I have a folder here that is three inches thick which covered off one minor issue with software that I wrote for Prudential of America and I ended up retaining the intellectual rights to it. At least the coffee during the meeting was free. I think that OpenSolaris needs to have such resources and it may be a substantial amount of money to get *anything* done correctly. - Dennis Clarke
