Will the Apache License or the GPL License protect my trademarks?

Question

I'm trying to see if these two open source licenses give protection of trademarks to the originator. I have read both licenses but they only seem to talk about their own trademark i.e. 'Apache'.

Answer 1

In general, trademark protection is a separate issue from software distribution. Your trademarks are supposed to be already protected under a wide range of circumstances, regardless of any licenses you might use to distribute software or otherwise sell product.

That said, trademark and copyright protection are often re-affirmed in software licenses. Section 6 in the Apache license does this; it states:

This License does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor, except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the Work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file.