Once this is cooked, I'm eager for us to pick up the threads on trademark enforcement against "subscription fraud" abusers of the trademarks. See http://www.itworld.com/security/182757/floss-accept-no-substitutes for an overview of the issue. At Sun, we regularly pursued the pond-scum who preyed on OOo end-users like this - does Apache already have an initiative for dealing with it?
S. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > Yes, ASF counsel and I are working with Oracle to get the paperwork signed > and finished to transfer a number of "OpenOffice.org" registered trademarks > (and related marks) to the ASF, from a number of different countries. > (Thanks Andrew) > > Andrew (or whoever): how/when can we get the submissions to that webform? > http://surveys.services.**openoffice.org/surveys/index.**php?sid=31881<http://surveys.services.openoffice.org/surveys/index.php?sid=31881> > > I'm actually wondering if and how we should review those, versus simply > asking people to start contacting ooo-dev@ about requests from the Apache > side. > > In particular, with the transfer of the OOo marks, how do we (as in, this > PPMC and trademarks@) handle any permissions or licensing of > "OpenOffice.org"? Especially since that mark primarily refers to a product > that we - the ASF - do not actually distribute? > > - Shane > > > On 7/19/2011 12:51 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 7/18/2011 10:37 PM, Peter Junge wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm still getting requests now and again from persons who want to use >>> the trademark OpenOffice.org for various reasons. In former times I >>> have been pointing them to a web form that Oracle was providing. So, >>> my questions are: >>> - Is the OOo trademark already with Apache? >>> >> Oracle legal is currently working with ASF on the transfer. >> >>> - If yes, I recall I have to forward them to tradema...@apache.org, >>> right? >>> - If not, is Oracle still taking on such requests? >>> >> All of these types of requests are on hold at Oracle. The process should >> be moved over to Apache. >> >>> + Do requesters still have to use the web form? >>> Or, is there any interims process? >>> >> Not at this time - and - this should make it over to the Apache side of >> things in reasonably short order. >> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Peter >>> >> -- Simon Phipps +1 415 683 7660 : www.webmink.com
