[legal-discuss] Guidelines for naming new projects

Brad Haque Brad.Haque at attachmate.com
Thu May 2 19:02:13 UTC 2013


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
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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 ?

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Thierry

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