Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:47:23 +0100 From: Chris Zumbrunn <chris@czv.com> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The only worthwhile logo-related comments so far.... Message-ID: <aa1b51d3047ab204e91bb7cc08c3efe7@czv.com> 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>
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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 <chris@czv.com> 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
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