Sigh .... Trademarks are not patents, there is no concept similar to prior art (there is in the US some thing which comes quite close, but that is just 1 (one) country). If you are a trademark owner you need to monitor applications that are close to your mark and if the examiners don't throw them out because of them being too similar with existing registrations, submit an opposition to the resp. IP office.
In any case the complaint by They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was not only not unexpected, it was entirely expected. TeleNav does not have a licence to use OpenStreet-anything from the OSMF, and as all projects that use a name that plays on OpenStreetMap the only thing it does is weaken the status of the OpenStreetMap mark, impacting our position if we ever have to defend seriously against misuse (you could argue that we, not They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named should have asked TeleNav to not use the name for the above reasons). Tacking "Open" on front of anything is very unoriginal and in the meantime completely meaningless, at best it might imply "slightly less closed", but even that is not a given. Simon Am 08.11.2016 um 19:54 schrieb Richard Fairhurst: > Andy Mabbett wrote: >> This is hardly surprising, and not unreasonable (there's no >> "Ford Beetle" or "Volkswagen Mini", nor a "BurgerKing >> Happy Meal". for example). > Though there is Ordnance Survey Street View, which pre-dates Google Street > View by several years. (It's soon to be replaced by OS Open Map Local.) > > FWIW, I like the "-scape" suffix, e.g. OpenStreetscape: > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/streetscape > > Richard > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/OpenStreetView-name-change-tp5885558p5885580.html > Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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