Questions tagged [trademark]
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Legal ramifications of use of the JavaScript trademark?
It's widely known that the name "JavaScript" is trademarked by Oracle (formerly a trademark of Sun, formerly a trademark of Netscape).
However, others seem to have no problem using the JavaScript trademark. Google uses it in reference to V8, Mozilla…
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What are the trademark guidelines for Java technologies?
The former page "Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements" at http://www.sun.com/policies/trademarks/ is no longer available, is there a new version which helps with the proper naming of products (beans, libraries) for Java?
I have found Third Party…
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Trademark question: naming an app after a common noun when an app from another store uses it
Here's my scenario with made-up names: A big company called Supersoft have announced that in about 3 months they're going to release an Android app called "Supersoft Metronome" (where Metronome is a fairly common noun). I want to call my new iPhone…
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Use the word "Apple" and "Safari" in my application
I am developing an application and i want to use two words somewhere in my application.
First i want to use the word "Safari" in a menu option which labels "Open in Safari"(for a url).
The second is the word "Apple" in my Terms pages where i want to…
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Will the Apache License or the GPL License protect my trademarks?
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'.
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is it possible for the author to trademark the name of an open-source application?
I would like to know if the name of an open-source application can be trademarked by the original author and what it means when it comes to distributing it through major linux distros, that is, will they accept this kind of software?
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