Are you using the name of the project in commerce? Or is it solely for internal purposes? -----Original Message----- From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:thierry at openstack.org] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:05 AM To: legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Guidelines for naming new projects Dolph Mathews wrote: > I don't have a legal answer because IANAL, but starting with a US > trademark search is an easy first step: > > http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk Someone (Jonathan ?) mentioned that trademarked stuff is an issue only where there is /some/ potential for confusion, like you're in the same kind of industry... i.e. a networking company called Lemon networks can't really sue a restaurant called "Lemon" over trademark grounds. Could anyone confirm that ? -- Thierry _______________________________________________ legal-discuss mailing list legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss