Am 20.07.2011 07:57, schrieb Simon Phipps:
Once this is cooked, I'm eager for us to pick up the threads on trademark
enforcement against "subscription fraud" abusers of the trademarks. See
http://www.itworld.com/security/182757/floss-accept-no-substitutes for an
overview of the issue. At Sun, we regularly pursued the pond-scum who preyed
on OOo end-users like this - does Apache already have an initiative for
dealing with it?
This is indeed a big and painful issue that should somehow be tackled. I
think the I remember the former lead of the German OOo Marketing Project
had collected several hundreds of cases of subscription fraud with OOo.
Peter
S.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Shane Curcuru<[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, ASF counsel and I are working with Oracle to get the paperwork signed
and finished to transfer a number of "OpenOffice.org" registered trademarks
(and related marks) to the ASF, from a number of different countries.
(Thanks Andrew)
Andrew (or whoever): how/when can we get the submissions to that webform?
http://surveys.services.**openoffice.org/surveys/index.**php?sid=31881<http://surveys.services.openoffice.org/surveys/index.php?sid=31881>
I'm actually wondering if and how we should review those, versus simply
asking people to start contacting ooo-dev@ about requests from the Apache
side.
In particular, with the transfer of the OOo marks, how do we (as in, this
PPMC and trademarks@) handle any permissions or licensing of
"OpenOffice.org"? Especially since that mark primarily refers to a product
that we - the ASF - do not actually distribute?
- Shane
On 7/19/2011 12:51 PM, Andrew Rist wrote:
On 7/18/2011 10:37 PM, Peter Junge wrote:
Hi,
I'm still getting requests now and again from persons who want to use
the trademark OpenOffice.org for various reasons. In former times I
have been pointing them to a web form that Oracle was providing. So,
my questions are:
- Is the OOo trademark already with Apache?
Oracle legal is currently working with ASF on the transfer.
- If yes, I recall I have to forward them to [email protected],
right?
- If not, is Oracle still taking on such requests?
All of these types of requests are on hold at Oracle. The process should
be moved over to Apache.
+ Do requesters still have to use the web form?
Or, is there any interims process?
Not at this time - and - this should make it over to the Apache side of
things in reasonably short order.
Best regards,
Peter
