Le 04/03/11 01:00, drew a écrit : Hi Drew,
> Well which is it - is the community logo w/registered trademark, mark or > not? - it is both ways on the wiki page above - PNG w/out any mark, SVG > with 'registered trademark", while on the trademark policy page it seems > that maybe it is just a "tm" that is appropriate at this time. > From a legal point of view, if the trademark is not actually registered then it can only be "TM" - note here that "filed" is not the same as registered. Considering that in the US registration takes anything from 12 months to 3 years on average, at least for the US it will have to be "TM". It is, by the way, an offence to use (R) or registered trademark in the US if the trademark is not actually registered. As for other countries, well the European Union trademark registration proceedings take approximately a year, if there are no setbacks, such as objections from the Examiner, oppositions by third parties, etc, so again, one is looking at registration proceedings lasting between 1 to 2 years. Other countries will have similar time schedules depending on the degree to which the trademark application is examined. In France, for example, it can take less than a year, approximately 6 to 8 months if all goes smoothly. Suffice it to say that it is unlikely that there are many "registered" "LibreOffice" trademarks around at the moment, in which case one should put "TM". The "TM" labelling is only really significant for the US anyway, nearly all other countries have a system based on first-come, first-served registration, whereas the US has both a system of inter-state commerce recognition of use of a trademark, and a federal registration system. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
