On Friday 24 November 2006 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We probably need to create a separate license for any trademarks > we register. "You may use this trademark without fee if you..."
Yes, many companies seem to have one. We'll also need to be careful about other people's trademarks that we mention in our documents. Xilinx®, Lattice® and Spartan(TM) are all trademarks for example. I seem to recall a nice explanation of how to acknowledge trademarks on Groklaw some time ago, but I can't find it. Anyway, here's one from a company that seems to give all the relevant advice: http://smartboard.co.uk/company/trademarksusage.asp The trouble with trademarks is that you _have_ to defend them or risk losing them, so even a friendly company will be very careful to send you a letter to explain what you're doing wrong unless you get it right. Also, IIRC a copyright notice isn't officially valid unless you use the actual © symbol (the (c) is not good enough), I'm not sure how that is for trademarks but if we can use the real symbols (©, ® and ™ in HTML) then we should. Lourens
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