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Subject: Re: Brand donation documents for NetBeans, examples?
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From: Jim Wright <jim.wright@oracle.com>
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:26:59 -0700
Cc: Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wielenga@googlemail.com>
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archived-at: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:27:12 -0000

Geertjan, ping me offline and I can connect you with TM counsel who can =
assist with this stuff.

 Best,
  Jim

> On Oct 11, 2016, at 7:59 AM, Shane Curcuru <asf@shanecurcuru.org> =
wrote:
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> The requirement is that the ASF own all trademarks and goodwill
> associated therewith before a podling is allowed to *graduate*.  =
During
> incubation, we require a clear statement of intent from the current
> trademark owner that they will donate the trademarks to us.  In
> particular, we probably should not sign legal papers until the podling
> actually has some Apache web presence.
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> In any case, most cases are simple boilerplate trademark assignment
> agreements.  It would be helpful if the donor in this case were to =
round
> up the complete lists and provide a proposed agreement, since I =
imagine
> their legal team has experience with this.  8-)
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> Separately, the podling and infra need to ensure that ownership (and
> hosting, later) of the domain name(s) is transferred as well.
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> Geertjan, let us know on the privately-archived trademarks@apache.org
> mailing list if you have detailed questions or if your counsel need to
> send us documents.
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> - Shane
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> Jim Jagielski wrote on 10/11/16 10:22 AM:
>> IMO, VP Brand would be taking care of that.
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>>> On Oct 11, 2016, at 5:02 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz =
<bdelacretaz@apache.org> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> Do we have a skeleton or example document for incoming podlings to
>>> donate a brand to the ASF?
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>>> We need to do that for NetBeans and Geertjan (Cced) is our contact =
on
>>> the Oracle side.
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>>> Let me know if it's better to put both legal teams in contact
>>> directly, and who the ASF contact would be for that.
>>>=20
>>> -Bertrand
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