5 Aug
2008
5 Aug
'08
5:07 p.m.
The conflict is between OpenSER and SER...your point is very relevant to
finding a new name, though, as it's not a case where it has to be
completely unique to all industries.
Based on the neat project logo shown earlier, a name like proxywave, or
Juevo Proxio would be good names (OK, maybe not the latter one).
Jeremy McNamara wrote:
Juha Heinanen wrote:
in case no one has answered to this yet, OpenSER
project got a few
months ago a notice from a company who has registered trademarks on
various SER related names and that company asked OpenSER project to stop
using OpenSER name. we had no other choice than to comply with the
request.
Is the company that registered the trademark a telecom company?
When did they register the trademark?
Have they taken other steps to protect their trademark?
Prime example - Delta Airlines and Delta Faucet.
There is only a trademark conflict when the parties cannot agree on how
each party uses the trademarked term.
Another example: Apple Computer and The Beatles' record label called
Apple - Only when Steve Jobs decided to go the music biz with iTunes was
there 'major' problems, even then they still worked things out to keep
the brand recognition - which OpenSER has just finally started getting
and has now totally lost with this ludicrous name change.
I'm not fond of how Digium changed Zaptel to DAHDI either, but they
spent many years fighting it - certainly no knee jerk reaction there.
Also, what inelectual property does "OpenSER" have? As far as I know,
"OpenSER" is all freely available and open source, so where is the
conflict? With Digium and Zaptel there is very significant IP (and
i'm not talking internet addresses :)
in retrospect, it might have made sense to
publish this on OpenSER
mailing lists when the request was received.
Yes, a public disclosure of the request should have been made - surely
somebody has prior art (What about SER? Did they get the same request?)
Jeremy McNamara
P.S. I am not a lawyer, but I should become one :)
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