Re: Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > Registration of Trademarks in itself are not very expensive, so Jayasoft > could > register it and donate it to the ASF, as an additional safe guard. However, > ASF will not be able to 'protect' the mark and hence it might be lost in the > future, but at least someone

Re: Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 11 June 2007 20:04, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On 6/11/07, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any recommendation on how to use the uspto.gov search? Ivy is a > > common name and I get a lot of trademarks containing Ivy, but I don't > > know if they are relative to a softwar

RE: NMS

2007-06-11 Thread Noel J. Bergman
John O'Hara wrote: > On the IETF thread, the early standards were 'clean'. And there is a > requirement to register patent interests against RFC's. Yes *early* IETF standards were clean, but they are supposed to be the guardians of the I in IETF, and have been delinquent by allowing IP constrain

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Petar Tahchiev donation Jakarta Cactus

2007-06-11 Thread Martin van den Bemt
+1.. Sorry Petar for ignoring you, glad to see you want to get going ! Mvgr, Martin Petar Tahchiev wrote: > Hello everybody, > > My name is Petar Tahchiev I donated a cactus maven2 build system. It is > registered under > > Petar Tahchiev / Representing Self > "Cactus Maven2 Build System ...

[result] [vote] Jeff Genender as a Committer on CXF

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Diephouse
I'm going to go ahead and close this vote now (its been several weeks). We've got 6 IPMC +1s now and 15 +1s from CXF commiters. I'll be taking appropriate actions so a mentor can email root and get the accounts set up. Thanks! - Dan On 6/11/07, Jim Jagielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 8

Re: CXF committer votes

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Diephouse
Busy like everyone else I guess :-) On 6/8/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we have 15 +1s from the various CXF committers and no votes from IPMC > members. None? Where are your Mentors? --- Noel -

[result] [vote] Christopher Moesel as committer on CXF

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Diephouse
I'm going to go ahead and close this vote now (its been several weeks). We've got 6 IPMC +1s now and 15 +1s from CXF commiters. I'll be taking appropriate actions so a mentor can email root and get the accounts set up. Thanks! - Dan On 6/11/07, Jim Jagielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 8

Re: NMS

2007-06-11 Thread John O'Hara
On the IETF thread, the early standards were 'clean'. And there is a requirement to register patent interests against RFC's. On 07/06/07, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > the IETF specifically permits (and, some may say, encourages) > encumbered standards

RE: Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread Gilles Scokart
I'm also wondering if anything prevents someone to register a name the day after we have checked that this name was not yet registered? Gilles > -Original Message- > From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: lundi 11 juin 2007 13:58 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subje

Re: [vote] Christopher Moesel as committer on CXF

2007-06-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 8, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Dan Diephouse wrote: Hiya, We started this vote (and a second one for Jeff Genender which I will forward in a moment) a while back on CXF-dev, and we've been unable to gain the necessary number of IPMC votes necessary to close the votes. Right now we have 15 +1s

Re: [vote] Jeff Genender as a Committer on CXF

2007-06-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 8, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Dan Diephouse wrote: Hiya, We started this vote (and another one for Christopher Moesel which I just sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) a while back on CXF-dev, and we've been unable to gain the necessary number of IPMC votes necessary to close the votes. Right now we

Re: Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 6/11/07, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any recommendation on how to use the uspto.gov search? Ivy is a common name and I get a lot of trademarks containing Ivy, but I don't know if they are relative to a software One thing is that the official name of your project is "Apac

Re: Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 11 June 2007 17:51, Xavier Hanin wrote: > Any recommendation on how to use the uspto.gov search? Ivy is a common name > and I get a lot of trademarks containing Ivy, but I don't know if they are > relative to a software. Good start is to look for "Ivy + Software". If you get hits on tha

Re: [IP CLEARANCE] Petar Tahchiev donation Jakarta Cactus

2007-06-11 Thread Dion Gillard
+1 On 6/11/07, Petar Tahchiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody, My name is Petar Tahchiev I donated a cactus maven2 build system. It is registered under Petar Tahchiev / Representing Self "Cactus Maven2 Build System ... http://mamouth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mamouth/Cactus"; -

[IP CLEARANCE] Petar Tahchiev donation Jakarta Cactus

2007-06-11 Thread Petar Tahchiev
Hello everybody, My name is Petar Tahchiev I donated a cactus maven2 build system. It is registered under Petar Tahchiev / Representing Self "Cactus Maven2 Build System ... http://mamouth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mamouth/Cactus"; - The code is attached to an issue tracker [1] for review as w

Re: Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
for Trinidad we found also only some against tabaco etc. should be fine, I think On 6/11/07, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. Any recommendation on how to use the uspto.gov search? Ivy is a common name and I get a lot of trademarks containing Ivy, but I don't know if they are rel

Re: Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread Xavier Hanin
Thanks. Any recommendation on how to use the uspto.gov search? Ivy is a common name and I get a lot of trademarks containing Ivy, but I don't know if they are relative to a software. Xavier On 6/11/07, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/I

Re: Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-27 -M On 6/11/07, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, According to the incubator exit policy [1], we have to check of project name for trademark issues. I have no experience in this domain, could someone tell me how I can proceed? X

Check of project name for trademark issues

2007-06-11 Thread Xavier Hanin
Hi, According to the incubator exit policy [1], we have to check of project name for trademark issues. I have no experience in this domain, could someone tell me how I can proceed? Xavier [1] http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Graduating+from+the+Incubator -- Xavier H