[Lugge] Fwd: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment
- From: alessandro p <alpalmas@xxxxxx>
- To: lugge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:09:16 +0100
Permettetemi di segnalare il caso.
Scusate se OT.
A.P.
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Subject: [linux] Fwd: [Cooker] Re: Linux Documentation Author
Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or
250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:16:21 +0100
From: Giorgio Carrara <giocarra@xxxxxxxxx>
To: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: newbie-it@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
segnalazione : ot ?
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Subject: [Cooker] Re: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser
threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO
penalty for supposed tradmark infringment
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:45:15 +0530
From: "N.D." <navin_dhanuka@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cooker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle@xxxxxxxx>
To: <announce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<docbook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <wehe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:55 PM
Subject: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened
with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for
supposed tradmark infringment
Off topic -- cross posting is deliberate...
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## 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty to Linux
Documentation Author --
## for infringing comic character "Obelix" through free Laptop
support Website "MobiliX"??
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After having gotten a request (in June 2001) from German legal
representatives of "Les Editions Albert Rene" (Paris), holder of
the trademarks "Asterix" and "Obelix", to unregister the name
MobiliX, they now took legal action against Werner Heuser
(mailto:wehe@xxxxxxxxxxx), well-known amongst Linux-laptop users
for authoring the "Linux-Mobile-Guide" (formerly called the
Laptop-HOWTO), published by the Linux Documentation Project.
MobiliX (http://mobilix.org/), his own website, is dedicated to
"Mobile UniX systems" on laptops, PDAs, cell phones and more. It
carries lots of useful hands-on information about installing and
running Linux and BSD on laptops, PDAs and other mobile computer
devices -- and of course it is free to use via the internet. It
exists since five years and besides the famous site "Linux on
Laptops" (http://www.linux-laptop.net) by Kenneth E. Harker it
seems to be biggest resource on this topic.
MobiliX is an acronym of the words "mobile" and "UniX". To avoid
legal trouble, Werner had registered this name at the German
trademark register in 1999. It is a common practice to build
new names for Unix related topics from a word naming the topic
and adding the letters "iX" at the end. Some examples are: AIX,
Eurix (Comfood), Sinix (Siemens-Nixdorf), SkroBelix, Skyrix,
Ultrix, Xenix. The German computer magazine iX is even just
named by these letters. The name Unix itself is a registered
trademark of AT&T, X/Open. The very name Mobilix is already
registered for a German manufacturer of children furniture --
but don't seem infringed, because of the different industry
they are in. Before the legal action, Werner didn't reference
in any way towords comic characters Asterix or Obelix on his
web pages.
The name of his website MobiliX.org is supposed to be mistaken
for Obelix, according to the charges.
The trademark Obelix was registered by German lawyer Guenter
Freiherr v. Gravenreuth. The legal charge is up to 250.000 USD
or six months prison. The costs of the first instance are app.
15.000 USD. Werner Heuser has decided not to withdraw the name
"MobiliX". He is supported by the German lawyers Jaschinski,
Biere und Brexl - JBB (http://www.jbb-berlin.de).
This case is another one in the recent series of trademark
troubles for Free Software projects (SAMBA, Kylix, Kilustrator,
SELFHTML, SuSE, ..). Therefore this case is very important not
only because many of these projects have names ending on "iX".
Current news about the case are at
http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html
Please support Werner to fight this attack.
[submitted by Kurt Pfeifle <pfeifle@xxxxxxx>]
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