[Conferences] Trademark policy for "PyCon" conferences

[John Pinner]

Hello All,

On 2 June 2014 18:34, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at python.org> wrote:
> Dear conference organizers,
>
> the PSF board has recently discussed and voted on a new trademark
> policy for the term "PyCon". Our main intent is to protect the
> name from unwanted third party use for the benefit of the Python
> community. We simply don't want to run into another python.co.uk
> trademark situation:
>
> http://pyfound.blogspot.de/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html
>
> We have not yet put this up on the website, but since the question
> has come up, I'd like to share it with you via email as upfront info:
>
<snips>

>
> As you can see, we have tried to grandfather all existing
> PyCon conferences that we could find and are aware of into
> the resolution.
>
> If you have questions, please let me know.

As I understand it, to protect the trademark, all authorised users
should include this acknowledgement

PyCon (TM) is a registered Trade Mark of the Python Software Foundation

as at pyconuk.org and pyconuk.net (in the footers)

best wishes,

John
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