NameProtect (www.nameprotect.com)

2004-12-23 Thread Ted Husted
Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product. Do we have an account with NameProtect? A prior post mentioned using the free internet search, but I don't see

Re: NameProtect (www.nameprotect.com)

2004-12-23 Thread Raphaël Luta
Ted Husted wrote: Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product. Do we have an account with NameProtect? A prior post mentioned using the free internet

Can 'Graffiti' be used for a software project ?

2004-12-23 Thread Raphaël Luta
Working with the JCMS team on the existing IP, we found that JCMS was not a good name because a CMS package with this name already exists even though it's not trademarked in the US (Jalios JCMS). The team wants to change the name to 'Graffiti' but of course there's already a Palm trademark on

[STATUS] (incubator) Thu 23 Dec 2004 07:26:31 AM EST

2004-12-23 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
APACHE INCUBATOR PROJECT STATUS: -*-indented-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2003/11/11 00:01:00 $] Web site: http://Incubator.Apache.Org/ Wiki page: http://Nagoya.Apache.Org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheIncubatorProjectPages [note: the Web site is the 'official'

Re: NameProtect (www.nameprotect.com)

2004-12-23 Thread Erik Abele
On 23.12.2004, at 11:40, Ted Husted wrote: Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product. Do we have an account with NameProtect? A prior post mentioned using the

RE: Can 'Graffiti' be used for a software project ?

2004-12-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
As soon as I saw the message subject, I thought of the other project, which actually pre-dates Palm, and was first available on the Apple Newton. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: Can 'Graffiti' be used for a software project ?

2004-12-23 Thread Raphaël Luta
Noel J. Bergman wrote: As soon as I saw the message subject, I thought of the other project, which actually pre-dates Palm, and was first available on the Apple Newton. Yes me too. The question was more from a legal standpoint would a Java based CMS software and a hand-recognition system embedded

RE: Can 'Graffiti' be used for a software project ?

2004-12-23 Thread Noel J. Bergman
The question was more from a legal standpoint would a Java based CMS software and a hand-recognition system embedded in physical devices be considered in the class and thus infringing or separate applications and thus be non-infringing ? You'd have to check with our lawyer(s), but I'd think

Re: [PROPOSAL] Nutch

2004-12-23 Thread Doug Cutting
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: One thing... there need not be a single Mentor. I would propose that you, being already an Apache committer, be a Mentor as well. Okay. I added myself as a Mentor. +1 What's the timeline for a decision about Nutch entering the incubator? Ideally I'd like to move things

Re: Can 'Graffiti' be used for a software project ?

2004-12-23 Thread Raphaël Luta
Le 23 déc. 04, à 17:59, Noel J. Bergman a écrit : The question was more from a legal standpoint would a Java based CMS software and a hand-recognition system embedded in physical devices be considered in the class and thus infringing or separate applications and thus be non-infringing ? You'd have

Re: Can 'Graffiti' be used for a software project ?

2004-12-23 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
Apache CMS. Though the lenya people would probably cringe. :-/ BTW: In Germany, such a trademark would be void. You could protect an image containing the word grafitti, but not the word itself. Regards Henning On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 20:16 +0100, Raphaël Luta wrote: Le