[Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts

[Lawrence A Fossi]

well some good news I think I did a few searches at
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp
http://www.copyright.gov/
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/index.jsp
http://www.uspto.gov/ip/index.jsp
All 4 have no results for mageia so it looks like he only has the rights to mageia.com and possibly the Isn't is magic he has on his website...
no clue if any search would produce a result if pending.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bornath" <molch.b at googlemail.com>
To: "Mageia general discussions" <mageia-discuss at mageia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:30:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts

2010/9/21 atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>:
> Im a lawyer, altough i dont know US or EU laws; i think it will be a
> legal problem like Mandrake name case. We should immediately need to
> consider this. Also even name is not a legal matter than domain names
> could be give us headache.

Yes, it depends on the company and if there is an underpaid lawyer
around (no offense meant, atilla).

A friend owning 'mobilix.de', dealing with Linux on mobile devices was
sued by the company which has the right son the famous "Asterix"
comics, where the second main character is named "Obelix". He lost the
case all the way up to the highest court although comics have nothing
in common with serious computer work (oh, ok, except UserFriendly)..
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