APL license - What about the enforced logos?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Well, I don't know about a *strong* trademark.  A district court judge
found, "serious questions regarding whether 'Windows' is a non-generic
name and thus eligible for the protections of federal trademark law."
(http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/62546_lindows16.shtml) in the
Lindows case.  Still, it's strong enough to threaten with(for now).

Matt Flaschen

Russ Nelson wrote:
> Lawrence Rosen writes:
>  > > Uhhhhh, I'd like to correct this misrepresentation of history.  We
>  > > tried to protect it as a trademark, however it is too descriptive.  In
>  > > order to gain a trademark on something so descriptive, you need an
>  > > expensive legal staff.  We don't have that, and so, no trademark for
>  > > "Open Source".
>  > 
>  > Uhhhhh, I'd like to correct that. In order to gain a trademark on something
>  > so descriptive, you need a change in the law. :-)
> 
> Let me defenstrate that idea:  "Windows" is about as descriptive a
> term for a bunch of windows as one can think of.  Yet Microsoft has
> managed to gain a strong trademark for a word which was used
> generically to describe a rectangular pile of bits on a screen.
> 


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