From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 00:47:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D236416A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:47:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from engine140.deployzone.net (engine140.deployzone.net [193.17.85.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3077343D39 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:47:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@czv.com) Received: from adsl-212-90-218-5.cybernet.ch [212.90.218.5] by engine140.deployzone.net; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:46:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <86650wjeag.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <20050213001621.59515.qmail@web53907.mail.yahoo.com><82d64b378160bb673c1d1611d1bedd56@czv.com><420FA01B.6000807@nbritton.org><02d9fb3bd6d983e230c3568cfaf8948f@czv.com><420FBEDE.4000608@nbritton.org><233b173e2a4026993c6ce9de25d560ae@czv.com> <86ekfkjg1v.fsf@xps.des.no><33431a18ed11d408fc0e740e9beef811@czv.com> <86650wjeag.fsf@xps.des.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Chris Zumbrunn Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:47:23 +0100 To: Nikolas Britton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The only worthwhile logo-related comments so far.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:47:25 -0000 On Feb 13, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > On Feb 13, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> *FreeBSD is FreeBSD not FREEBSD. Also "FreeBSD" is trademarked the=20 >> other is not. > > You're referring to the US/UK/German/Japanese trademark the FreeBSD=20 > foundation recently got from Windriver, correct? Is that now a logo=20 > trademark or a word trademark? Word trademarks never differentiate=20 > between small and capitalized letters. If the trademark is limited to=20= > just the "FreeBSD" version then it isn't a word trademark. On Feb 13, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Chris Zumbrunn writes: >> On Feb 13, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >>> Word marks are case-insensitive. >> That's what I thought. You can register a "word" case sensitive, but >> then it is a logo. But maybe that's how it was registered. > > It only takes a minute to find out on http://www.uspto.gov/. Looks like a word trademark to me. I don't think this is an issue,=20 Nikolas. /czv