On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com wrote:
4) What is the impact of registering in the US only?
A: We would still only have Common law protection in those countries
we don't register the logo. We'd gain no benefit in those
jurisdictions, but it wouldn't hurt
Hi,
On 12/06/13 at 11:49 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com
I finally had a chance to discuss with our legal counsel, and have
some answers to the questions raised in the discussion.
Thanks for this. It covers all I remember. One small question:
Yes, thanks a
Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com
I finally had a chance to discuss with our legal counsel, and have
some answers to the questions raised in the discussion.
Thanks for this. It covers all I remember. One small question:
3) Should we register in the US only or register internationally?
MJ Ray dijo [Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:49:09AM +0100]:
I finally had a chance to discuss with our legal counsel, and have
some answers to the questions raised in the discussion.
Thanks for this. It covers all I remember. One small question:
3) Should we register in the US only or
I finally had a chance to discuss with our legal counsel, and have
some answers to the questions raised in the discussion.
The summary of the QA is (from list and some of my own):
1) Does registering logo require any changes to TM policy?
A: No changes required
2) What are the costs to register
Le Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:51:06AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
Le Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta a écrit :
Cons:
-
- Filing costs of ~$700
- Labor/work required to file (With assistance from SFLC, I am willing
to do much of the work required.)
I wonder
Hi Brian,
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late
February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times.
Currently, our logo is not a registered Trademark, but is considered
(and treated
* Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com [2013-04-22 16:58]:
1) Gnome foot is licensed under LGPL/GPL and is a registered
Trademark: (Pretty much all artwork including the foot is licensed
under Copyright law under LGPL/GPL).
GNOME actually has a good example of why it makes sense to license
* Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com [2013-04-22 16:04]:
What do people feel about proceeding with this registration?
I'm strongly in favour. As pointed out in my other email, there's no
conflict between having a DFSG-free logo and having a registered
trademark.
--
Martin Michlmayr
MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop writes:
[registration] allows law
enforcement officers to prosecute what they consider infringement,
whether or not we do. This is one way that multinationals make
taxpayers pay for policing their brands - however, debian is not
locked down like LVMH or DG.
I'd
Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com
Pros:
-
- Makes it easier, legally speaking, to protect our trademark, if it
ever came to it
Is this a significant benefit? How many protection actions have been
prevented by the lack of registration?
- When companies are doing trademark searches
Hi all,
I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late
February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times.
Currently, our logo is not a registered Trademark, but is considered
(and treated by our current Trademark policy) as a common law
trademark, in that
Hi Brian,
Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather
about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct?
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote:
Hi all,
I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late
February, and the issue of our Logo has come up
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:13:24PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
Hi Brian,
Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather
about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct?
Both are now open-use. The only non-DFSG free logo would be the bottle
logo, ISTR. (the font is
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather
about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct?
Both are now open-use.
I was interested which logo was suggested to become a registered Trademark.
--
Yaroslav O. Halchenko,
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote:
Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather
about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct?
Yes, the swirl alone.
Could it be trademarked? I thought that because of its unfortunately
common origin there is so many of existing
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
Hi all,
I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late
February, and the issue of our Logo has come up a number of times.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:58:27PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
Hi all,
I have been helping to field trademark inquiries for Debian since late
February,
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
deb...@onerussian.com wrote:
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Brian Gupta wrote:
Just to make sure: you are talking not about swirl alone, but rather
about swirl + word Debian. Is that correct?
Yes, the swirl alone.
Could it be trademarked? I
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:58:27PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
Hi all,
I have
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