Ross Gardler wrote: > Jim Jagielski wrote: > > William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >> Jim Jagielski wrote: > >>> > >>> Are we cool with the name 'wookie' as a mark?? > > ... > > > Just closing the loop on the various trademark debates being done > > on prc@ and members@, of course. > > > > It's called oversight. > > Thanks Jim, > > I did do a trademark check before proposing it. It is mentioned in the > documentation somewhere, but it may make sense for us to add a section > to the proposal template to indicate the search has been done. > > Unless someone objects I will add a section, with links to the > relevant search engines in the UK and US (please provide other links > too if you have them to hand). > > I guess the minimum check would be the US, with suggested checks in > other territories.
Please also consider: http://www.apache.org/dev/project-names.html Perhaps the template needs to refer to that too. There is more to such issues than just a quick trademark search. -David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org