Hi, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Ben Shum <[email protected]> wrote: > Question, where do we plan to enforce the trademark "EGILS"? As far as I > knew, this has only been used for the "official" twitter hashtag #egils, but > I wouldn't have imagined one would trademark a hashtag. > > Or is the intent that we may someday use the acronym EGILS and it's now to > be an official term for the project?
The intent is to protect words that have commonly been used to refer to Evergreen, and the "EGILS" acronym is an example because of its use as a hashtag. Why protect it? To avoid the potential for confusion in the marketplace if (say) a firm decided to start marketing a new ILS called "EGILS". Of course, this does *not* mean that anybody has to ask permission to using #egils as a hashtag. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: [email protected] direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org
