On 09.07.2011 23:34, Danese Cooper wrote:
If you want a legal opinion, please forward a request to
[email protected]
No, I don't need a legal opinion because I'm not wanting to remove the
".org".
Peter
My non-legal (and non-binding) response is that I believe OpenOffice.org is a valuable
(read: "already paid for") worldwide trademark. We could seek to establish a
new trademark using Apache in the name to make it sufficiently unique, but the ASF
doesn't normally spend money to secure worldwide rights.
By the way, HP is slip-streaming the common-knowledge popularity of
OpenOffice...which is a normal tactic...but they are doing so as a calculated
risk. I'm betting Sun or Oracle lawyers already sent warning notices, and we
will probably have to as well (once we come to own the trademark).
D
On Jul 9, 2011, at 5:48 AM, Peter Junge<[email protected]> wrote:
As to the differentiation of OpenOffice.org and Apache OpenOffice.org,
I would propose to use the latter for the project and the community
now, but keeping the former for the branding of the product.
I can't help wondering though if HiPath OpenOffice is not a problem for
Siemens (and presumably other trademark holders)
why Apache openOffice would be/cause a problem for us.
That's something a lawyer should answer.
