Mailing-List: contact general-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: general@hadoop.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of msegel@navteq.com designates
 65.167.11.240 as permitted sender)
From: "Segel, Mike" <msegel@navteq.com>
To: "general@hadoop.apache.org" <general@hadoop.apache.org>,
        "trademarks@apache.org" <trademarks@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:00:16 -0500
Subject: RE: Interesting: bigdata is a registered trademark
Thread-Topic: Interesting: bigdata is a registered trademark
Thread-Index: AcxTiX5bzJt/Ys0GROaW2pwy6EYW5AABoggA
Message-ID: 
 <3798688F8784154192FDA3388F4C2081015C4967@hq-ex-mb03.ad.navteq.com>
References: <4E3B43A2.902@shanecurcuru.org>
 <CAJwFCa3OAy0PS1LZq-S1To-e7Sbb2pQgekQjYDM3serR0+8C9g@mail.gmail.com>
 <4E3C142F.3070303@shanecurcuru.org>
 <CAJwFCa1fx9dNvY9HR5jLDdci8yMXLTyRn0_=YaraXfPJ6AL4QA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: 
 <CAJwFCa1fx9dNvY9HR5jLDdci8yMXLTyRn0_=YaraXfPJ6AL4QA@mail.gmail.com>
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
acceptlanguage: en-US
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0

Don't be so Cavalier. 
'Big Data' and 'BigData' are similar enough that if they were talking about the same thing, you would still get sued and the odds are they would win.

You would have to talk to a lawyer, but it gets more in to a question of what or how you define Big Data.

Is there going to be confusion of what is meant by 'BigData' and 'Big Data'. At the same time one could probably challenge the trademark.

Its definitely interesting.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunning@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:05 AM
To: trademarks@apache.org
Cc: general@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Re: Interesting: bigdata is a registered trademark

Bleah.

Looks like mahout and hadoop projects need to be careful to put a space in there.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Shane Curcuru <asf@shanecurcuru.org> wrote:

> http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/**tarr?regser=serial&entry=**78980206<ht
> tp://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78980206>
> http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/**tarr?regser=serial&entry=**78926399<ht
> tp://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78926399>
>
> - Shane
>
>
> On 8/5/2011 11:54 AM, Ted Dunning wrote:
>
>> There is a significant chance that they haven't actually registered 
>> this as a trademark and simply don't know what (R) means.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Shane Curcuru <asf@shanecurcuru.org 
>> <mailto:asf@shanecurcuru.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    I just saw this site, where SYSTAP has a bigdata (r) registered
>>    trademark on their, um, Big Data related software product:
>>
>>    http://www.bigdata.com/__**bigdata/blog/<http://www.bigdata.com/__bigdata/blog/>
>>    
>> <http://www.bigdata.com/**bigdata/blog/<http://www.bigdata.com/bigdat
>> a/blog/>
>> >
>>
>>    - Shane
>>
>>
>>
>


The information contained in this communication may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above.  If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited.  If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete/destroy the original message and any copy of it from your computer or paper files.