Niclas Hedhman wrote:
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 01:36, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Actually, they trademarked FeliX. Capital X. I suspect that the normal
spelling may not be easily trademarked. But IANAL.
AFAIU, for trademarks of common names (opposed to fabricated words, logotypes,
sounds and others) I think there is a requirement of being restricted to a
particular market segment. Hence, Felix in food products have no case about a
Felix car or Felix softwares. BUT, IANAL, and been wrong before.
It has to be noted also that the project name won't be "Felix" alone (if
we choose this), but "Apache Felix" just as every other Apache project.
And it's unlikely that such a trademark exists.
Tomcat, Jackrabbit, Felix: the ASF starts looking like a zoo :-)
Sylvain
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