[legal] Questions about OpenID Europe Trademark Policy

[Carsten Pötter]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Snorri <snorri at snorri.eu> wrote:
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> The goal of this policy is not to be binding, it has just been planned to
> avoid abuses by some in the future…
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I am not a lawyer, so this might be completely wrong but I think this
statement is in complete contrast to this one:

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> There has been a lot of conversation about the use of the TM symbol, all
> lawyers explain that it is important to write it… to avoid in the future
> OpenID become a word like "kleenex", "email"…
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If you don't enforce the correct use of the logo, wording,... it will become
open to use for everybody the way they want it to use. It will be as common
as RSS or SSL which won't be bad, by the way. See Hans' email.



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