Re: Trademark misuse by gonicus?
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:40:21AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:10:05PM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote:
> > But how do you compare the use of the trademark in a phone number to its
> > use in a domain name? For the latter, http://www.debian.org/trademark
> > explicitely forbids that:
> > "To be fair to all businesses, we insist that no business use the name
> > Debian in the name of the business, or a domain name of the business."
> I think it's possible to include Debian in your business name without
> misusing the trademark (eg a Debian support company), and the policy
> would not be legally enforceable in that case.
If you include 'Debian' in your company name, this is not nominative use of
the trademark; Debian certainly should take action to prevent use of its
trademark in such a way without permission.
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