Yes the list is legal-internal@, since the standing request to all PMC is not to "go looking" for problems and make such searches public knowledge. This is more important when it comes to patent than for trademarks.
On the list above, you will have ASF's Legal Counsel available for real legal advice... -- Niclas On Aug 6, 2009 10:36 PM, "Jason Davies" <ja...@jasondavies.com> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
