Hi Erich,

IBM has stated to have transferred the trademarks to The Rexx Language 
Association. I have heard this statement in person from at least two different 
persons employed by IBM at the time, and in charge of Object Rexx. The document 
signed between RexxLA and IBM has (project phase II) “Transfer of intellectual 
property” (Program Code, […], etc”.

I cannot remember RexxLA ever having followed up to check whether everything 
(including the parts handled by the legal department, which I remember as not 
always the fastest movers in IBM) was formally executed. We need to ask the 
people on the forefront of the open sourcing effort, starting 2004, which were 
Pamela, Chip, Rick, Rony and Mark, if they have memories.

Open Object Rexx (including its name and its publisher) is published under the 
CPL; this is a clear document as to the ownership of the contents of its 
repositories. 

best regards,

René.

> On 6 Jan 2023, at 11:53, Erich Steinböck <erich.steinbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Our docs state "Open Object Rexx™ and ooRexx™ are trademarks of the Rexx 
> Language Association".
> 
> I've searched several online Trademark Portals (e. g. TESS at 
> https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4810:74iqlo.1.1) and 
> cannot verify whether this is actually true.
> 
> Is "Open Object Rexx" and/or "ooRexx" (still) a trademark of RexxLA?
> 
> Our ooRexx icon, which is set as the rexx.exe icon on Windows also shows "TM".
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