On 10-02-23 3:23 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > Elefterios Stamatogiannakis wrote: > >> Madis is a extensible relational database system built upon the SQLite >> database and with extensions written in Python (via APSW SQLite >> wrapper). Its is developed at: >> >> http://madis.googlecode.com >> >> >> > I am concerned with your choice of project name, "Madis", because there may be > reasonable grounds for confusion between your project and my "Muldis" > projects, > which I have been releasing and promoting for about 3 years now (and for which > I've had domain names for about 6 years). > > > I also welcome any third party comments in regards to whether I have > reasonable > grounds to think there may be confusion between the 2 projects that could > affect > trademark matters. > > Hi Darren,
I don't think there is any reasonable grounds to expect confusion between these two products. To me the names are only vaguely similar. Furthermore, if you have an issue with his use of "madis" being too similar to your products name, then you probably have an similar issue (with roles reversed) concerning Borland's (now Embarcadero) database middle ware product "midas" which was announced in April of 1997. Perhaps "multics" is another example of a product name that is quite similar to yours, and who's use pre-dates yours considerably. One of its claimed novelties was that "Multics implemented a single level store for data access" which could easily be confused with database functionality. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think you would have much ground to stand on in trademark dispute, especially if you have not registered your trademark. Just my two cents. Dennis Cote _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
