On 5/31/12 10:06 AM, William Stein wrote:
Hello,
As Sage grows, we may have to face more and more crap like [1] and
possibly attacks from others, which might force us to completely
change the name of our project to have nothing to do with "sage",
which would wreak havoc on google searches, etc. To stop this before
it is too late, I talked with a patent/trademark attorney at
University of Washington yesterday. To my pleasant surprise, they are
willing to do all the work and pay the costs associated with
trademarking Sage in some context of what we are doing (whatever turns
out to make sense from a legal perspective). They are also willing to
sell the trademark to me later, if I should so desire. Having the
trademark owned by UW instead of me personally is I think much more
useful, since UW is a huge enterprise with the resources to actually
defend the trademark.
+1 from me if it's very clear (in writing) that you can buy back the
trademark for the registration cost whenever you want.
Thanks,
Jason
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