[legal-discuss] Guidelines for naming new projects

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Thu May 2 16:04:50 UTC 2013


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



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