Re: [OSM-talk] Geocode trademark

2013-02-25 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Don, So you are volunteering as an expert witness? =D And yes sadly the situation is silly, but difficult to deal with as with the OSMF being a small organization with little in the way of a legal fund. Best, -Kate On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Donald Cooke wrote: > If anyone gets aroun

[OSM-talk] Geocode trademark

2013-02-25 Thread Donald Cooke
If anyone gets around to challenging GEOCODE, Inc's trademark claim, a couple of quick searches will find that the term has been in use in GIS literature for ~45 years. For example, I organized a working session on Geocoding in 1971. I put together a collection of papers called "GEOCODING-71" whi