Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 03:59:27PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: > > > > interesting. I drop a line for ArcticFox then, since I am currently its > > main contributor. > > I hope there's no danger of a name conflict, but "Arctic Fox" was > the name of a video game sometime around 1980.
In case it's what you're worried about, trademarks have scope only within a specific trade or industry. Anyone who still is a valid legal stakeholder for the name of a 1980s video game would have no power in trademark law to suppress use of that name for, say, a Web browser over trademark infringement, even if the mark is used in commerce. (Use of a mark non-commercially is never infringement.) (At the risk of going further out into the weeds, at least in USA trademark law, there is a separate protection available since 1995 only to the most famous trademarks, like Coca-Cola, under what is called 'trademark dilution' theory, where _any_ third-party commercial use is deemed likely to confuse the trademark stakeholder's customers, and so can be enjoined.) More than you probably want to know about this subject, here: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/trademark-law.html _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
