Ubuntu Community Council statement on Canonical package licensing

Posted Feb 17, 2014 3:14 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
In reply to: Ubuntu Community Council statement on Canonical package licensing by drag
Parent article: Ubuntu Community Council statement on Canonical package licensing

>You need to prevent your trademarks from becoming common jargon.

The mark was already a common language word before, so from one particular angle, it is somewhat hilarious. O the laws…

Ubuntu Community Council statement on Canonical package licensing

Posted Feb 17, 2014 18:14 UTC (Mon) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link] (1 responses)

The deal is that you can use words that already meant something, so long as they didn't mean anything _in this context_.

So "Duck Pizza" is not an acceptable trademark, because that's just saying you're using duck on or in the pizza somehow, a foodstuff, so what? You could not receive a registration for this mark.

But "Duck Microwaves" is OK because ducks have nothing to do with microwaves, it's just an arbitrary branding choice. Unless someone objected the trademark would be registered without trouble.

Ubuntu Community Council statement on Canonical package licensing

Posted Feb 17, 2014 19:58 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

"Duck's Pizza" would be acceptable though (even moreso if your name or nickname is "Duck").