From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Dec 18 14:33:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F4837B405 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBIMXAR21313; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:33:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <00f401c18813$f9aaa1b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Person, Roderick" , "Terry Lambert" Cc: "Fergus Cameron" , References: <46AEB8C1B628D511969200508B6FE42A668822@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu> Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:33:10 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roderick writes: > the status of .net is that it is pending trademark. > Federal serial number is 78012936 > filed: June 15, 2000 Trademarks cannot be pending; either they exist, or they don't. Only trademark _registrations_ can be pending. The application that you reference appears to be having a bit of trouble; given its very broad claim and the absence of a clear history of prior use, that would not surprise me. That may be why Microsoft does not appear to be asserting trademark status for it currently (it is not on Microsoft's trademark list). Microsoft doesn't even seem to have tried to register Passport, which is probably wise, since a number of other registrations conflict with the one they'd probably wish to use. And here again, MS does not appear to assert trademark status for the word, and does not include it on its trademark list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message