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 <doncoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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" which Google books shows available in nine libraries in the > USA and Canada. At the bottom of page 54, there's even a reference to a > commercial product called "GEOCODE". I really wish these people would do > something useful with their lives and talents rather than annoy others with > groundless legal actions. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
