Using a trademarked word is only an infringement if there is "likelihood of confusion" with the trademarked product. Thus Andersen Windows is perfectly free to call their product "Windows". I doubt there's anything out there that's likely to be confused with our Juice, but I'm not a lawyer. :) There is http://www.juice.com/ which seems to sell some sort of software.
Noah On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:10:57 -0000, Kenworthy, Edward (EDS) wrote: > Funny. I heard a vague rumour that someone trademarked the words "Windows" > and "Excel" and "Office" and "Outlook". > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erwin van der Koogh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 March 2004 09:55 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Native JCE Proposal > > > > One thing that does worry me about Juice - are we going to run into an > > trademark issues? > > There is no way you can trademark such a generic word. So I doubt it. > > The only problem I can think of is that juice is an already existing > library that does something to resemble what we are trying to do. > > Anyone know of an opersource project called juice? > > Erwin
