Re: Licensing issues

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> : Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> writes:
> : 
> :> Yeah, except under law (and for good reason) nobody can claim
> :> ownership of "Open Source" until they pay to have the "(tm)" put next
> :> to it.
> : 
> : This is not the way trademark law works.  You can own a
> : non-registrated trademark.
> 
> Do you have any information about the status of
> http://opensource.org/trademarks/

For "OSI Certified" and "Open Source", the USPTO status is "Abandoned:
Applicant failed to respond to an Office action." (At least for the
trademark applications by OSI and SPI, there are lots of other
trademarks containing the phrase "Open Source".)

There are a few related trademarks in German.  There's a recent
application for "Unbreakable Open Source" by SuSE, Soluzione Projekt
GmbH has applied for "Open Source Academy". "CESAD Certified Engineer
for Open Source based Web Services Application Development" and
"CEfOSS Certified Engineer for Open Source Software" are already
registered trademarks, as far as I can see.

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