Fedora Dispute

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 02:46 pm, Matthew Miller wrote:

>>> snip

> To me and you there isn't. To US trademark law, I don't think it's so
> clear. Trademarks need to be unique within one of the 45 official
> international classes of goods and services -- and class 42 is:
>
>    CLASS 42 (Computer, scientific & legal)
>
>    Scientific and technological services and research and design relating
>    thereto: industrial analysis and research services; design and
>    development of computer hardware and software; legal services.
>
> So, not only are operating systems and digital content management systems
> not legally distinct, we're not even particularly distinct from any other
> scientific services, or from legal services -- all the same thing as far as
> trademark distinctiveness goes.


Evidently the French lump old comic strips and computer operating systems in 
the same bucket, causing Mandrake to become Mandriva.

-- cmg