On Jan 17, 2008 6:20 PM, Brian West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Jared Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 06:33 -0800, Flavio Goncalves wrote: > >> I have received today a notice of disaproval of my ad in Google > >> Adwords, because it was using the word Asterisk (A DigiumĀ“s > >> trademark). > > > > In response to an increase in the occurrence of unauthorized use of > > Digium trademarked terms, Digium has recently expanded our efforts to > > control the use of Digium's trademarks. One the measures taken has > > been > > to work within Google's defined programs to control the purchase of > > Digium trademarked terms as Google Adwords. In doing so we > > proactively > > provided Google with a list of companies that have signed agreements > > with Digium permitting the use of Digium trademarks. Organizations on > > that list will continued to be allowed by Google to purchase Digium > > trademarked terms as Google Adwords. > > > > However, if your organization has been recently been contacted by > > Google > > and required to stop using the Digium marks, you may contact Digium > > directly to request that your company be added to the list of > > authorized > > organizations. > > > You shouldn't have to contact Digium for such use cases as "Asterisk > Compatible" or "Works with Asterisk". > > /b >
You are right but Google does not want to be in the middle and neither would I. I just wonder what are the criteria to get Google AdWords approval from Digium if you are not formally Digium authorized or whatever. Jared said you can request approval by "address[ing] with some history of your past use and the specifics of your request for the future." I for one will not lock myself into selling a particular product unless it is best for the customer or what the customer specifically wants. That would bar me from being formally Digium authorized. Thanks, Steve Totaro
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