From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Dec 18 18:13:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from femme.sapphite.org (cc2219923-b.erlght1.md.home.com [65.9.33.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF9E37B416 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:13:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from femme.sapphite.org (trish@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by femme.sapphite.org (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fBJ2CME2006204; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:12:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (trish@localhost) by femme.sapphite.org (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id fBJ2CHrD006201; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:12:22 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: femme.sapphite.org: trish owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:12:17 -0500 (EST) From: Trish Lynch X-X-Sender: To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: "Person, Roderick" , Terry Lambert , Fergus Cameron , Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! In-Reply-To: <00f401c18813$f9aaa1b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: <20011218210943.D364-100000@femme.sapphite.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Beside the facts that trademarks have to be used in a very specific way: for example: .NET Passport could not be used as a trademark .NET Passport Online Registration System (or whatever it is) could be. I had discussions at length with an IP lawyer about this several months ago when I was doing research for what would have been the Open Source Trade Foundation, a non-profit to help manage IP for the Open Source community. -Trish On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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 > -- Trish Lynch trish@bsdunix.net FreeBSD The Power to Serve Ecartis Core Team trish@listmistress.org http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message