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Koha creators asking for help in trademark disputeKoha creators asking for help in trademark disputePosted Nov 24, 2011 20:49 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute by NRArnot Parent article: Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute
Didn't Apache very nearly lose their trademark to the Apache nation, Sounds iffy to me. First of all, there isn't any legal Apache Indian entity that could own a trademark. There are a bunch of US-government-recognized Indian tribes that have traditionally been called Apache, but those are essentially US government agencies; they couldn't own a trademark. There are corporations attached to most Indian tribes to do non-governmental things, but they couldn't own a name which is obviously just the name of their tribe. And finally, the name is traditional. It was made up by Europeans to refer to a group of people that isn't even well defined (they all looked the same to Europeans, after all) long before modern trademarks. You might just as well claim "Gypsy."
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