Re: Serious trademark trouble.

2000-08-12 Thread Russell Nelson
David Johnson writes: > At one time there was talk about Open Source certification. Is this > still being considered? A trademark may not be possible, but a > certification would be the next best thing. We had always planned on registering Open Source as a certification mark. In fact, such an

Re: Serious trademark trouble.

2000-08-12 Thread David Johnson
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: > Anyway, it's all a moot point since we've stopped defending "Open > Source". As one of the people on the front line of the trademark > defense, I can tell you that it was hopeless. If you have a different > opinion, I have to wonder what evidence you

Re: Serious trademark trouble.

2000-08-12 Thread Russell Nelson
Ean R . Schuessler writes: > My understanding is that the validity of trademarks stands on an > organization's consistent use and regular defense of a term in the course > of commerce. The longer this mark stands formally unchallenged, the more > difficult it will become to unseat it. If this

Re: Serious trademark trouble.

2000-08-12 Thread David Johnson
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > My understanding is that the validity of trademarks stands on an > organization's consistent use and regular defense of a term in the course > of commerce. The longer this mark stands formally unchallenged, the more > difficult it will become to un

Re: Serious trademark trouble.

2000-08-12 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
My understanding is that the validity of trademarks stands on an organization's consistent use and regular defense of a term in the course of commerce. The longer this mark stands formally unchallenged, the more difficult it will become to unseat it. If this company develops products, packaging,

Re: Serious trademark trouble.

2000-08-12 Thread David Johnson
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but I must have missed any > discussion that occured on it. It appears that our lack of action on an > Open Source trademark (bickering, bad communication, et. al) has created > a serious problem. A c