Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 00:51:15 -0700 From: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation Message-ID: <B3145709-9AD1-4747-8B3E-218D908CE2AD@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <115bd5c3-7759-b086-804a-a0bcc0336857@sorbs.net> References: <20180206222137.GA78935@skeletor.feld.me> <A905406A-5097-489C-8C95-764870F11F3B@kreme.com> <20180207092827.GA81527@home.opsec.eu> <CANYZJQY=7Lk60khQRjR8H8jLcCaasut8R6f%2B9fgyhDvxD6=RdQ@mail.gmail.com> <fe353ecd-90ce-9f05-900a-2cdd054f5236@sorbs.net> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802081035280.50080@aneurin.horsfall.org> <652bf20e-3d99-b522-a413-a9ab53a8b0c2@sorbs.net> <1B1944BD-C232-4841-9C6D-D0011B9C7069@kreme.com> <115bd5c3-7759-b086-804a-a0bcc0336857@sorbs.net>
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On 08 Feb 2018, at 17:52, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote: > Don't know - Trademarks don't always have to be registered to be a = Trademark... a Registered Trademark can carry the symbol and has had all = the due diligence done so its more 'protectable' but the lack of the = registration doesn't make it 'not a trademark' just that it's not as = defensible for violations. Speaking with some experience it is nearly impossible to enforce a =E2=84=A2= trademark, especially if there are other trademarks of the word or = phrase or name. If you want to use McDonald=E2=80=99s in your name for a = hardware store you better be sure you get a =C2=AE for it if you want to = defend it, since there is already an established =C2=AE (more than one, = in fact) in place. Pale Moon is not unique, so at least in the US, not having a fully = registered trademark means that any claim of =E2=84=A2 is basically = meaningless. (And in the US you can thrown a =E2=84=A2 on anything you want, it = doesn=E2=80=99t mean anything other than that you intend to defend a = potential trademark. As an example, at one point an RPG company (TSR?) = put a =E2=84=A2 on every instance of the word =E2=80=9CNazi=E2=80=9D in = one of their rule books. There are three extant trademarks in the US for =E2=80=9CPale moon=E2=80=9D= , two for beer and one for =E2=80=9CPale Moon Gang=E2=80=9D which = appears to be a musical group. There are no trademarks for = =E2=80=9Cpalemoon=E2=80=9D = <http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=3Dtoc&state=3D4805%3Ad60yvy.1.1= &p_search=3Dsearchss&p_L=3D50&BackReference=3D&p_plural=3Dyes&p_s_PARA1=3D= &p_tagrepl%7E%3A=3DPARA1%24LD&expr=3DPARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=3Dpale+moon= &p_tagrepl%7E%3A=3DPARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=3DAND&a_default=3Dsearch&a_search= =3DSubmit+Query&a_search=3DSubmit+Query> --=20 'Long Live The Changing Things To A More Equitable State While Retaining Due Respect For The Traditions Of Our Forebears And Of Course Not Harming The August Personage Of The Emperor Endeavour!' --Interesting Times
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