Re: GNOME & KOM/OP (trademarks)

[Dick Porter <dick cymru net>]

On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 09:03:10AM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> 
> I guess this has been discussed before, but...
> 
> Isn't Orbit a registered trade mark for chewing gums or the name of a
> company making chewing gums?

As I understand it, trademarks are registered for areas of business. When
Wrigley starts making computer software called ORBit, we may have a problem.

(It's a serious issue, as the Linux(tm) trademark shows. Maybe a friendly
lawyer should advise the Gnome team about trademarking some of their names?)

> 
> Oskar Liljeblad (osk@hem.passagen.se)
> 

- Dick