[legal] Questions about OpenID Europe Trademark Policy

[Snorri]

We have add this sentence: “Please note that this version is still a draft that may change.” on  http://www.openideurope.eu/policies/openid-trademark-policy/ 

 

Cheers

 

-Snorri

 

De : Carsten Pötter [mailto:sccpffm at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : samedi 8 mars 2008 18:59
À : Snorri
Cc : legal at openid.net
Objet : Re: [legal] Questions about OpenID Europe Trademark Policy

 

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Snorri <snorri at snorri.eu> wrote: 

 

The goal of this policy is not to be binding, it has just been planned to avoid abuses by some in the future…

I am not a lawyer, so this might be completely wrong but I think this statement is in complete contrast to this one: 

 

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"…

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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