Hi, > Can you copyright a word ? I thought this was the trademark part of > the law. For example, "linux" is a trademark owned by Linus Torvald. > Also, well known packages use words which are at least as common as > bento in English (sphinx, twisted, etc...), and as likely to be > trademarked.
I got ripely panned for doing this before, but... If you have a look at - to reduce controversy - : http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm#7 you'll see a summary of the criteria used. I read this stuff as meaning that, if you're doing something that has a low 'likelihood of confusion' with the other guy / gal doing 'Bento', and the other 'Bento' trademark is not 'famous', you're probably, but not certainly, safe from successful prosecution. See you, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
