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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.
