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Re: [ee4j-community] An open proposal for the direction of future Java EE Naming
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Thanks. So the difference is that EE4J won't be trademarked, right?
On 2018-01-23 11:27 AM, Michael
Nascimento wrote:
We are talking about apples and oranges here. EE4J is the name of an
Eclipse Foundation top-level project. The questions at hand is what
brand can we use for labeling a large family of technologies,
enforcing compatibility, and so on. To do those requires a
legitimate registered trademark.
Yes, you are there is nothing illegal with calling something
"Specifications for Java EE". However this thread is suggesting that
this convention be used for all involved specifications and projects
instead of picking and trademarking an entirely new name to replace
"Java EE". Specifically, "Extensions for Java EE" or "Components
for Java EE" or "Specifications for Java EE".
Let us see how this would work if we tried to trademark
"Specifications for Java EE" so that we could tie that label to
enforcing compatibility with a specification:
- We would have to explicitly disclaim the "for Java EE" since
that name is trademarked by Oracle. You can use that phrase
under the doctrine of nominative fair use, but you cannot
trademark it.
- The USPTO would tell us that the word "Specifications" is a
generic industry term, and certainly could not be owned as a
trademark by the Eclipse Foundation.
In other words we cannot trademark "Extensions for Java EE" or
"Components for Java EE" or "Specifications for Java EE". And if
we cannot trademark them, we cannot use them for what we want to
accomplish.
The above is a narrow legalistic explanation of why this wouldn't
work. The larger point is what Will Lyons stated in his email.
Or perhaps I have completely misunderstood the proposal?
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