Important to emphasize this. The issue raised on the call was not trademark but brand. This entire thread is noise :)
On Thursday, December 17, 2009, Justin Erenkrantz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> In all seriousness, what, if anything, should we be doing about this? Do we >> need to change the project name? Are there other options? This is obviously >> a big deal for us because any re-branding is going to take time and is >> likely to hold up any announcements about our recent graduation. > > I would suggest following the advice of counsel (Larry) as a first step. > > If an alternative name comes to mind easily to the community, now is a > great time to re-brand. If it doesn't, then go ahead with the > migration and announcement as Apache Pivot. (You can view a later > rename as another opportunity for publicity!) At this point, the > Pivot app by Microsoft is only a trademark application - not a > definitive registration. However, Roy's point during the Board > meeting yesterday was that Microsoft marketing is going to extensively > promote "Microsoft Pivot" and relegate "Apache Pivot" to the > netherworlds in the Google indexes... -- justin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
