Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Trademark applications

2009-01-20 Thread MJ Ray
SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On 20 Jan 2009, at 11:08, MJ Ray wrote: Appealing for patience is all well and good, but it sounds like if Peter hadn't acted when OSMF and the trademark agent had not acted in time, it might have become criminal to call some things openstreetmap tomorrow!

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Trademark applications

2009-01-20 Thread MJ Ray
Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: [...] I.e. he was saying that nobody was needed to make it criminal - that the simple grant of a trademark would be sufficient to do that. I can't believe he's right but I think that's what he said. [...] If I hadn't been seeing this steadily