The current Trademark License Agreement is unacceptable

Luis Villa luis.villa at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 18:45:41 UTC 2009


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway<tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/28/2009 02:15 PM, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
>> Exactly how does our capability of enforcing the trademark to ONE BAD site change,
>> depending on 99 other sites which either have a signed agreement or
>> not?
>
> IANAL, so please keep that in mind. I'm sure that Luis or Pam will
> correct me if I am incorrect. :)
>
> My understanding is that the holder of registered trademarks have to
> "enforce the registration in the event of infringement" or they will
> lose the trademark. Basically, you have to be constantly vigilant or you
> are putting your trademark at serious risk.

This is essentially correct. Close enough for our purposes at this
time, at any rate. :)

Luis




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