Hi again,
In addition to this, it might be useful to note that:
- "ibrowse" was first made public on May 5th, 2005 according to the
original public CVS repository (and no-one has complained about it
since that time).
- the US trademark was registered on May 24th, 2005.
- Chandru and I have just searched the UK trademark database and
discovered that "iBrowse" was registered in 2009, although by a
different company to the US one.
Thanks again,
--
Jason Davies
www.jasondavies.com
On 6 Aug 2009, at 15:22, Jason Davies wrote:
Hello all,
We recently imported a third-party library "ibrowse" [1] into Apache
CouchDB. Getting a software grant agreement is not a problem
(although we should have done this earlier). However, as part of
the due diligence checks I am supposed to check for any existing
trademarks that it might violate. I did a simple search on the US
trademark database and discovered there is a live trademark for
"ibrowse". The trademark number is 2956316.
Now, Googling for "ibrowse" turns up quite a few search results from
different usages of this name, so I don't know whether this means it
is not being enforced, and whether that means we don't need to worry.
If someone more knowledgeable could check the trademark and advise
on whether Chandru (author of the ibrowse module that we are
importing) needs to change anything, and whether this is a problem
from Apache CouchDB, that would be very helpful. Also, if there is
a more appropriate mailing list for this question, please let me know.
Thanks!
[1]: http://github.com/cmullaparthi/ibrowse/tree/master
[2]: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk
--
Jason Davies
www.jasondavies.com
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