On 01/02/2013 18:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2013/2/1 Simon Poole <si...@osmfoundation.org>:
issue with respect to the trademark GEOCODE owned by Geocode, Inc. of
Alexandria, Virginia, USA. There are likely to be further related edits and
changes both on the wiki and the help site. Please do not add such removed
links back or undo any such edits. If you find use of the term “geocode” on
our wiki or help site please replace it with a generic term (for example
"search"), or report it to my e-mail address.
What about replacing it with the German term "geokode" ?
I fully support what been written by colliar and joto. What comes
next? Corporation inc. registering a trademark for mapping party,
mapper or crowd-sourced?
cheers,
Martin
IMHO if they are arguing solely upon basis of the word then Geocode's
lawyer's argument is specious. To that end, they're just trademark
trolling in a retcon attempt to show defence of a trade mark they
shouldn't arguably have been granted in the first place.
On what grounds do they issue the C&D against OSMF? Has it been detailed
anywhere? I'm very curious about the contents of the issued C&D if one
exists and I'd very much like to see the notice. (Happy to discuss by
email with relevant people off-list).
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