On Tue, 30 May 2006 11:40:14 -0400
"Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, the cat's out of the bag. Apparently, I accidentally CC'd the
> list with the Traversal logo (well, a version of it).
Always watch your CC list :)
> So, I was talking to Howard about registering it real quick, and he
> had two thoughts about this. One is that the logo is going to be WAY
> too hard to silkscreen onto something. When you start shrinking it
> and playing about with it, it loses its definition. He also thinks
> that it's not worth the $275. "If someone steals it, let them have
> it; we'll make another one."
That's true. If you really paid nearly $300 for that logo
it's a rip off. It reminds me of the graphs we did with
mathematica in highschool (actually there was one plot
that looked really like the logo).
And Howards points are valid. You cannot easily scale this
logo without makeing it unrecognizable.
> I'm interested in hearing opinions of others on this and if I can get
> some help understanding the rules for registering a trademark, maybe
> we'll register it anyway. The biggest drawback is that if someone
> clones our products, they can use the logo, which is bad. So at some
> point in the future, we need to register it.
I don't know about other countries, but in Switzerland a
logo is yours as soon as it passed the registration. You can
even register a logo after you used it (unless it entered
common usage[1]).
Attila Kinali
[1] There is a case where not even this holds true.
Someone registered Tux as word and as a picture trademark
here in Switzerland a while back. Apearantly to make some
money by sueing other people. Fortunately the reaction of
the community and the counter sueing of Penguin Books
(no joke!) nearly ruined his little IT company.
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