[haiku] Re: Trademark
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:49:16 +0100 CET
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 01:59 +0100, François Revol wrote:
> > First trademark only exist in a specific area of products/services.
> > You don't own a trademark for "all possible thing".
> > This allows things like Linux (the OS kernel) and Linux (the
> > washing
> > powder) to both be valid trademarks in some countries.
>
> This is a given. Dane's question was answered in the context of what
> we
> can all assume he is going to do, which I am pretty is not to start
> selling washing powder. :)
Eh, who knows, "With Haiku, your clothes look like new!" :)
> > Trademark holders are free to licence it to any party it wishes.
> > In theory one has to declare it to the TM office, but in practice
> > it
> > costs some bucks, so I don't think it's worth doing.
>
> I am not really sure what you mean by "it must be declared to the TM
> office," but my understanding is that once you have a registered
> mark,
> it is up to you whether you want to license it to others or not and
> under what conditions.
It might be a specific of the french office... sorry this is only in
french:
http://www.inpi.fr/fr/marques/la-vie-de-votre-marque/transmettre-ou-exploiter-une-marque.html
> This is why I have always recommended consulting with a trademark
> attorney.
As I said, meeting the office representative here is possible without
paying (but he's quite busy), though I don't know much about others.
François.
Other related posts:
