[legal-discuss] Guidelines for naming new projects

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Thu May 2 19:17:32 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 07:02:13PM +0000, Brad Haque wrote:
> Are you using the name of the project in commerce?  Or is it solely for internal purposes? 

The various OpenStack project names are used publicly.




 
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> -----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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