Trademark lawyer Anthony Tambourino noted the Red Hat free-distribution trademark story below and writes:
There are a couple of issues to watch out for when representing an “open source” client.First, be clear who the owner of the trademark is. There are thousands (literally) of open source projects (See SourceForge). Often, a half-dozen programmers (a/k/a
Brandchannel on the relationship of beer brands to their country of origin.
Siemens on brewing beer here.
Via Slashdot: Red Hat, a Linux distributor, protests third-party use of RED HAT on free software distributed by Red Hat. Contains disucssion of treatment of trademarks in free-distribution scenario.
The owners of the TABASCO sauce trademark have sued the owner’s of TABASCO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT AND PATIO, a restaurant in Iowa, named after the state in Mexico.
History of TABASCO sauce here.
Information regarding visiting the Tabasco Plantation on Avery Island, Lousiana, here.
Information regarding visiting the Tabasco state in Mexico here
Slate article on the typo ecnomy the Internet has spawned.
Chameleon is a service that sits on top of your Bloglines account and re-formats the way Bloglines displays feeds and folders.
From an ad parody site.
Boeing has renamed its 7E7 Dreamliner to the 787, to conform with its previous serious of 7×7 names.
Boeing started as the Pacific Aero Products Company in 1916 according to this history.
Discussion of Google’s patented PigeonRank system here.
Some reactions to the Bean-teaser from yesterday.
1. The photo, to the extent it copies, copies a curve and reflexity, neither of which are original to the Bean;
2. The taking is de minimis;
3. Look at the statute;
4. Look at the law. On that point, a brilliant colleague (whose employer insists that its employees