Contractual obligations?

Posted Aug 18, 2015 13:34 UTC (Tue) by davidgerard (guest, #100304)
In reply to: Contractual obligations? by rsidd
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

There's also who actually owns the OpenOffice.org trademark, e.g. if Apache could even give it to someone else at all.

I researched all this mess in some detail when polishing up the related Wikipedia articles - it's really confusing just what Oracle did and did not grant Apache, and the AOO project has long been actively unhelpful in making this clearer.

Searching the US trademark

Posted Aug 18, 2015 18:21 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Word Mark OPENOFFICE.ORG
Filing Date March 7, 2005
Registration Number 3063339
Registration Date February 28, 2006
Owner (REGISTRANT) Team OpenOffice.org e.V. e.V. eingetragener Verein (registered association) FED REP GERMANY Team OpenOffice.org e.V. c/o Matthias Huetsch Hertogestra e 14 Hamburg FED REP GERMANY D-22111

(LAST LISTED OWNER) THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION CORPORATION DELAWARE 1901 MUNSEY AVE. FOREST HILL MARYLAND 210502747

According to http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/ the owner is the same for the OO.o logo.