On Tuesday 27 March 2007 00:50, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> What we do in
> incubator, validating the uniqueness of our chosen marks, clearly
> establishing first use, the name restrictions in the ASL all go a long way
> to prevent any future confusion.
I am interested in the "first use" part, and what does that really mean?
Let's create community habbawagga.sf.net, and it develops a successful system
with an Apache license. There is no trademark registered by the project nor
anyone else. The project issues a perpetual, "fair use" license of the
name "habbawagga" (i.e. used to refer to the non-forked product in marketing,
books, links, et al, but not to trademark, derive other products from, bla
bla bla).
Is that enough to ensure that someone doesn't trademark it later? What about
totally independent companies trying to trademark the same name, will they
succeed and if so, can they stop our use of the mark for our project?
Cheers
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