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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>wrote:

> 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 ?
>

I believe that to be true, unless the trademark becomes so impactful that
it would be confusing to use it an *any* industry (Microsoft, Kleenex,
Xerox, Coca-Cola, Google).


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