On Tuesday 15 October 2002 07:27, David Krider wrote: > You guys are starting to scare me. I made the reference to the lawyers > in jest. I think for there to be actual infringement, I need to have > profited from using the trademark or at least prevented RedHat from > making some money, which arguably was the case in both examples you cite > above. As RedHat doesn't offer case badges (stickers are nice, but > rather cheesy), and as I am not selling them, I don't see where the > financial harm enters the picture. IANAL nor do I work for Red Hat but ... I suggest you may want to destroy those stickers. As a trademark, Red Hat needs to vigorously protect its trademarks (use lawyers) or it will loose the trademark. For example, when copies first came out they were by Xerox and folks began referring to copying documents as "xeroxing" them even when the copier being used was made by a different manufacturer. The Xerox company fights this as best they can because if it does not, they will loose the "xerox" trademark. I am not sure how successful Xerox has been protecting its trademark. Gene -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
