[legal-discuss] Guidelines for naming new projects

Dolph Mathews dolph.mathews at gmail.com
Thu May 2 14:41:17 UTC 2013


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.
>
>
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