[Opensim-dev] LindenLab tightens policy on Trademarks

[David Graham]

I previous positions, I have worked with trademarks. My recollection is that a trademark applies to the visual representation of the item trademarked – which why it is different from a copyright; which is also why a Mark Drawing is required for the trademark application.

 

Hence, LL can trademark the logo ‘Grid’, they cannot trademark the word.  LL would not be able to make a claim against OSGrid or CentralGrid unless they used the identical logo as LL’s ‘Grid’.

 

David

 

From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Garth FairChang
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:46 AM
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] LindenLab tightens policy on Trademarks

 

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.
 
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 > 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 
 <mailto:DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net> <DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net> wrote:
 > > Garth FairChang wrote:
 > > > Suggestions for grid:
 > > >
 > > > Continent mode
 > > > World mode
 > > >
 > > > There must be more
 > > metaverse.
    

 
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