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 -Dolph On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote: > Hi > > I've just added a new question to the FAQ: > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LegalIssuesFAQ > > Q: What sort of things should I bear in mind when choosing a new > project name, in order to reduce the risk of running into legal > problems in the future? > > But I don't have an answer! > > I understand we can't cover all bases here. I understand that general > guidelines can't replace a full conflict search by counsel. However, > there are plenty of examples of why a general question to this would > help developers avoid making obvious mistakes. And we're likely to just > see more and more new project names, so we can't have the answer be "ask > Mr Name Expert whether the name is sane". > > Without using any of our current project names as examples, would anyone > care to take a stab at answering this generally? > > Thanks, > Mark. > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-discuss mailing list > legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/legal-discuss/attachments/20130502/0a1ced28/attachment.html>