Trademark Troubles On Release Naming
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Phil Robb
Hello TSC: Steering clear of trademarks (not to mention potential new trademarks) is going to be a problem going down our current path. Of the six names submitted, only two successfully passed the Trademark filter. Those were:
Ambient Apollo Hydrogen Single words that are trademark-able are always going to be a problem. OpenStack for example chooses cities or counties near where their next design summit will be as those names are not trademark-able... the one exception thus far was "Grizzly" which was a design-element on the California State Flag... also not trademark-able.
For us, we can choose two names (such as Ambient Apollo), or we need to find another category that is not trademark-able. For those I put forth for your consideration: Chemical Elements (already discussed such as Hydrogen)
Colors in the w3c HTML Standard (http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp) Places (cities, beaches, mountain-tops) where sunrises/sunsets are particularly cool
For this release, I will just create a surveymonkey poll with only the two entries (Ambient Apollo / Hydrogen) unless I hear otherwise by the end of the day on Monday. Thanks,
Phil. -- Phil Robb Director - Networking Solutions The Linux Foundation (O) 970-229-5949 (M) 970-420-4292 Skype: Phil.Robb
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Bhushan Kanekar (bkanekar) <bkanekar@...>
I don’t understand what Ambient Apollo would mean. I think someone forgot to separate the two with a comma.
With Hydrogen you get a theme of using the Periodic Table. Very nerdy but what the heck, we are all nerds J
So I like Hydrogen.
My $0.02
Thanks,
Bhushan
From: tsc-bounces@... [mailto:tsc-bounces@...]
On Behalf Of Phil Robb
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:42 PM To: tsc@... Subject: [OpenDaylight TSC] Trademark Troubles On Release Naming
Hello TSC:
Steering clear of trademarks (not to mention potential new trademarks) is going to be a problem going down our current path.
Of the six names submitted, only two successfully passed the Trademark filter. Those were: Ambient Apollo Hydrogen
Single words that are trademark-able are always going to be a problem. OpenStack for example chooses cities or counties near where their next design summit will be as those names are not trademark-able... the one exception thus far was "Grizzly" which was a design-element on the California State Flag... also not trademark-able.
For us, we can choose two names (such as Ambient Apollo), or we need to find another category that is not trademark-able. For those I put forth for your consideration:
Chemical Elements (already discussed such as Hydrogen) Colors in the w3c HTML Standard (http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp) Places (cities, beaches, mountain-tops) where sunrises/sunsets are particularly cool
For this release, I will just create a surveymonkey poll with only the two entries (Ambient Apollo / Hydrogen) unless I hear otherwise by the end of the day on Monday.
Thanks,
Phil. -- Phil Robb Director - Networking Solutions The Linux Foundation (O) 970-229-5949 (M) 970-420-4292 Skype: Phil.Robb |
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Anees A Shaikh <aashaikh@...>
Since it seems we will have to revisit, I will add my suggestion for a new
category to yours Phil, mountains or ranges: Alps, Adirondacks, Catskills, Caucusus, Everest, Himalaya, Kilamanjaro, etc. thanks. -- Anees tsc-bounces@... wrote on 08/23/2013 04:41:48 PM: From: Phil Robb <probb@...>trademark-able.
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Omar Sultan (osultan) <osultan@...>
From a Marketing WG perspective, I would also second Phil’s note about sticking to a theme that has commonly used or otherwise non-trademarkable terms.
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O On Aug 26, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Anees A Shaikh <aashaikh@...> wrote:
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