A question for you that has come up in the OpenOffice project. The ASF owns the U.S. registration for "OpenOffice.org". Looking up the registration on TESS, we see the word mark is claimed for:
"Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer software for use in database management, for use as a spreadsheet, for word processing, that may be downloaded from a global computer network; computer programs, namely, presentation graphics programs, that may be downloaded from a global computer network; software for processing images, graphics and text, that may be downloaded from a global computer network; software for typesetting of equations and formulae, that may be downloaded from a global computer network" With our 3.4.0 release last May we are now calling new release "Apache OpenOffice" and claiming that term as a (TM). But we still distribute version 3.3.0 and earlier as OpenOffice.org (R). So arguably both trademarks are still in use. One further idea was to use the (R) when referring to the website itself, .e.g, use anchor text of "OpenOffice.org (R)" on hyperlinks to www.openoffice.org. The idea was that this would count as an additional active use of the trademark. But since the registration itself does not mention the use of the trademark on websites, one concern was that we risked the trademark by not respecting its scope ourselves. Any advise on this would be much appreciated. Regards, -Rob
