[Opensim-dev] LindenLab tightens policy on Trademarks

[Alondria]

That is another TM filed by the RIAA and is irrelevant to Linden
Lab(tm ;)) or us since it is in another industry than either of us.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Garth FairChang <garth at fairchang.com> wrote:
>
>  I was searching and saw this record for GRID (Not sure how it will cut and
> paste):
>
>
>  Word Mark GRID
>  Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: FEATURE OF
> COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND PRE-RECORDED SOUND RECORDINGS IN THE FORM OF UNIQUE
> DESIGNATIONS USED TO IDENTIFY COPYRIGHTED WORKS, FOR PURPOSES INCLUDING THE
> ALLOCATION AND PAYMENT OF COPYRIGHT ROYALTIES VIA A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK.
> FIRST USE: 20020515. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20020515
>
> IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: OPERATION OF A SYSTEM FOR OTHERS TO ASSIGN
> WORLDWIDE UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS TO COMPUTER PROGRAMS, SOUND RECORDS, RECORDINGS
> INCLUDING SOUND AND OTHER MATERIAL, SUCH AS VIDEO IMAGES AND DATA, AND
> DIGITAL PACKAGES TO FACILITATE DISTRIBUTION, TRACKING AND CONTROL THROUGH
> ELECTRONIC AND OTHER MEANS WITH THE ABILITY TO PROTECT AND ADMINISTER
> ROYALTY PROGRAMS FOR THE BENEFIT OF OWNERS OF COPYRIGHTED WORKS. FIRST USE:
> 20020515. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20020515
>  Standard Characters Claimed
>
>  Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
>  Serial Number 78210514
>  Filing Date February 4, 2003
>  Current Filing Basis 1B
>  Original Filing Basis 1B
>  Published for Opposition October 25, 2005
>  Owner (APPLICANT) Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.
> CORPORATION NEW YORK 1025 F Street, N.W. 10th Floor Washington D.C. 20036
>  Attorney of Record James Walsh
>  Type of Mark TRADEMARK. SERVICE MARK
>  Register PRINCIPAL
>  Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
>
>
>
>  John Ward wrote:
>  I kind of like the "verse" of metaverse in place of grid. It's short
> and lends itself well to names like OSVerse, CentralVerse,
> OpenSim.Verse.AssetServer.exe, and etc. The different verses are all
> parts of the larger metaverse.
>
> John Ward
> jward/JohnnyB Hammerer
>
> Stefan Andersson wrote:
>
>
>  Actually, no cyberpun(k) intended; but 'Matrix' is a descriptive term
> for this (legacy and rather unimaginative) arrangement of nodes. Quite
> possibly the bland term 'table' would work as well. 'Lattice' is
> probably what we want, what with groups of groups and all. (A lattice
> can be formed by sub-lattices)
>
> Or, why don't we just leave the 2d-flat earth notion of a
> grid/matrix/table/lattice and move our mindsets more towards a 'Net',
> 'Whorl', 'Dispersion', 'Maelstrom' or 'Interjectory'?
>
> Yours dispersed thru time and space,
> /Stefan
>
> PS: All this aside, I say we write everything LL or SL - trademark -
> derivative -out- of the core and wiki ASAP. God only Knows where LL is
> headed what with recent movements and events. Let's pose it 'the great
> mental cast off' DS.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:46:39 -0800
>  > From: alondria at gmail.com
>  > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>  > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] LindenLab tightens policy on Trademarks
>  >
>  > Ah yes, but there is also the issues of OSGrid, CentralGrid, etc..
>  >
>  > And our prolific use of the term in various places, etc.. Will this
>  > cause an issue?
>  >
>  > I still cannot believe their trademarked Hippo - that wasn't even a LL
>  > creation - their users started that in beta.
>  >
>  > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Dr Scofield
> <DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net> wrote:
>  > > Garth FairChang wrote:
>  > > > Suggestions for grid:
>  > > >
>  > > > Continent mode
>  > > > World mode
>  > > >
>  > > > There must be more
>  > > metaverse.
>
>  "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the
>  urge to rule." H.L. Mencken
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