Trademark does not protect ownership as such, it protects the NAME of the product from being spoofed by someone as their own.
Leslie On 2023-01-06 10:19:57 René Jansen wrote: > 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". - - Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64) _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
