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Re: Express Logic claims GUIX trademark
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
Subject: |
Re: Express Logic claims GUIX trademark |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:00:16 +0100 |
Guix, mikadoZero,
I know you're not a fan of [the common pronunciation of] the name
Guix, but going straight from my ironic quote of a shitty PDF to a
public and ‘proactive name change’ proposal is at best premature.
If it is the case that Guix the free software project does not
have a
trademark for Guix, then I would like to share what looks like a
clear
parallel. It involves another free software project that used
to be
called Jade. Jade did not have a trademark for Jade. A
software
company had the trademark for Jade. The company forced Jade to
change
it's name.
Wow. That's super disingenuous (by ‘that’ I mean the original
posts[0], which you accurately paraphrase). It certainly didn't
leave me with the favourable impression of the Free software
project that was probably intended.
Yes, if you start a software repo in 2010 using the name that a
software(!) company had registered in 2003 for their (you guessed
it) software, you might be ‘forced’ to be just a bit more
original. The heart truly weeps. At least they restyled
themselves Pug and not UnderDog.
So no, and luckily for everyone, there are few parallels to Guix
to be found here.
It took me all of 20 seconds to find the actual GUIX trademark
registration[1], so we can stop basing this discussion on
regrettable typographical choices in press releases.
It's 4 months old.
Meanwhile, we have:
commit 207cba8114d354737b231e510d6110ea2a42e07b
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 18 23:21:11 2012 +0200
Initial commit.
Do 6+ years of prior public use trump registration? Not
necessarily, but it's a far cry from what the Jade-lang folks did.
I think we should talk to a lawyer.
Kind regards,
T G-R
[0]: https://github.com/pugjs/pug/issues/2184
[1]:
http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87948650&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
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