[legal] Questions about OpenID Europe Trademark Policy

[Raj Mata]

In the Trademark committee call last week, we have identified a plan and will be working through the details of this over the next few weeks.

 

As per the notes from Bill Washburn: "As a trademark committee we have to decide which additional countries we in which we want to register "OpenID" /logo in preemptively immediately and how much that will cost.  J. Scott will review our list of countries to see which fall under the Paris Convention and which therefore do not require attention for the next few months."

 

Cheers,

 

Raj

 

 

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From: legal-bounces at openid.net [mailto:legal-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Bill Smith
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:21 AM
To: legal at openid.net
Subject: Re: [legal] Questions about OpenID Europe Trademark Policy

 

In order to protect and enforce "proper" usage of the mark it  will be necessary to register the mark in each of the jurisdictions you wish to seek such protection. Any number of Intellectual Property firms (I'm not an attorney) can help with this. Note, it typically takes a few years and costs 1 000 - 3 000 USD per jurisdiction for the initial filing (About 100 000 USD for good commercial coverage). Additional costs are incurred to renew and should there be any challenges.

Carsten Pötter wrote: 

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Bill Washburn <billhwashburn at yahoo.com> wrote: 

	
	Also, it important to say that there is a trademark committee just getting going anew that is tackling these and related issues globally with the objective to establish/articulate a set of policies and guidelines that are understandable, well aligned, and coordinated across jurisdictions around the globe.  Please let me know if any of you would like to volunteer for that committee.


Well, I guess working on those guidelines should be up to some lawyers who know various jurisdictions. It wouldn't make much sense if there were guidelines being established which can't be enforced globally.

Cheers,
Carsten




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