Re: Patents and open source projects

From: Roy Tennant <roytennant_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:46:27 -0800
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
I once got a "cease and desist" letter from a legal firm defending someone's trademark for "metadata". I mean, seriously. Perhaps obviously, I ignored it. It's still in my files somewhere.
Roy



On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:31 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU> wrote:

> Ironically, I had (or there was) some trouble with the term "MyLibrary_at_NCState". Granted, the term was originally a variation of My Netscape, My Yahoo, and My Deja News, but all sorts of things followed it, like MyiLibrary, the Google Books My Library, and then there was a ALA thing. I'm not necessarily saying MyLibrary was the leader here, but an example of how trademarks (monikers) can be used, abused, and morphed. --Eric Morgan
Received on Tue Dec 06 2011 - 09:48:05 EST