Francesco Poli wrote:On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:09:11 +0200 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > "The sign X, registered as a trademark under number $NUM in > $REGION,..." I don't know if Debian logos are actually *registered* marks. Possibly, they are just unregistered trademarks... Does anybody know for sure?I didn't think of unregistered marks. Yes, in that case it gets more tricky. This is a mostly-US problem; the other jurisdictions I know of simply do not recognize trademark rights unless registered.
As far as I'm aware, unregistered trademarks are NOT US-centric, although they may be Anglo-centric - they're a perfectly acceptable feature under British law.
Although as far as unregistered marks go, it's probably a case of "passing off". If I declare something as "tm" (ie an unregistered trademark) and somebody else then COPIES it, it's a pretty open-and-shut case of passing off.
Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anthony@thewolery.demon.co.uk