Re: Express Logic claims GUIX trademark

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody@not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr>]

Hullo,

Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 11.03.19 um 20:00 schrieb Tobias Geerinckx-Rice:
>> It took me all of 20 seconds to find the actual GUIX trademark
>> registration[1], so we can stop basing this discussion on 
>> regrettable
>> typographical choices in press releases.
>>
>> It's 4 months old. 
>
> As Pjotr already stated: we should get in touch with the FSF to 
> make
> them file a case against this trademark.

Well, I wasn't talking about my own lawyer :-p

There's also the Free Software Conservancy (sfconservancy.org) but 
I agree that, as a part of GNU, we should deal with this through 
the FSF.  That's up to the maintainers to decide.

> Also this might to so easy:

‘not be’?

> - The registration says: "First use 2014" and "Use in Commerce 
> 2014".
> Thus we need to proof we used "guix" earlier, e.g. using 
> archive.org [1]

Good, that's trivial.  Cue legal bikeshedding over the meaning of 
‘commerce’, I guess.

> - We should also check for trademark registrations in other 
> areas, e.g.
> Europe, India, China.

AFAICT the mark is not registered in Europe.  The question is 
whether it needs to be to be ‘enforced’ by EL.

> - It might even be useful to invest ~300 € for registering GUIX 
> as a
> trademark in Europe.

It's nice™ that we already have a legal entity named ‘Guix Europe’ 
ready to do so if necessary.

Kind regards,

T G-R