The return of Iceweasel

Posted Sep 29, 2006 13:45 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (guest, #19270)
In reply to: The return of Iceweasel by Jel
Parent article: The return of Iceweasel

Trademarks may apply to a company, a particular product, a particular service, etc. I suspect there are more product trademarks than company name trademarks.

The Firefox trademark

Posted Sep 29, 2006 18:15 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

There are two kinds of "apply to." The trademark registration tells what Mozilla is using the trademark for. But the trademark gives Mozilla the right to exclude others from using the trademark for lots of similar things too.

I don't know where the line gets drawn, but based on how broadly the rights have been granted in a few famous trademark cases, I would think someone with trademark rights on a Firefox database manager could stop someone from distributing a Firefox web browser.