On Friday 30 May 2008 01:25:19 Tim Stebbing wrote:
why?
I mean, if you trademark 'Twisted' and developer X goes and calls his bit of code 'twisted foo' are you going to pursue him in court? To what end?
There's also defensive trademarking. If Linux (for example) had been trademarked early, this would never have happened: In the United States, the name Linux is a trademark registered to Linus Torvalds.[59] Initially, nobody registered it, but on August 15, 1994, William R. Della Croce, Jr. filed for the trademark Linux, and then demanded royalties from Linux distributors. In 1996, Torvalds and some affected organizations sued him to have the trademark assigned to Torvalds, and in 1997 the case was settled.[60] ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Licensing.2C_trademark.2C_and_naming ) Michael.