Re: Branding of GNOME-hosted Tomboy Online

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb zonker net> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Sandy Armstrong
> <sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
> > With the understanding that we could always rebrand before this
> > deployment is open to the public, does anyone take issue with using
> > the "Tomboy Online" brand as we begin alpha testing?
>
> I probably know the answer to this, but just figured it's worth asking:
>
> Is the Tomboy name trademarked,

Not to my knowledge.  I will ask around at Novell, because I do know
that some project names that originated at Novell are trademarked, and
it's conceivable that Tomboy falls in that category...but I kind of
doubt it.

> and is there any potential issue with
> the trademark for the Tomboy name / brand?

I have no idea.  Good point.

Sandy