trademark

How can newly registered trademarks affect previous non-trademarked software?

Assumption: The newly registered trademark is within the software domain. No registered trademark existed when the software was named and release. First, are the any requirements for the trademark applicant to survey established names? If the trademark is granted registeration, how can this affect other unregistered software tradema...

Interoperability and other companies' trademarks

My company is building an application that interoperates with a packaged application that our customers own. We don't have a good relationship with the package's vendor; they basically see us as competitors and wish we would die in a fire. My business partners are edgy about this, and have been suggesting that I remove all references t...

Interoperability and other companies' trademarks

Previously asked as, this question, but now he actually asked the question. My company is building an application that interoperates with a packaged application that our customers own. We don't have a good relationship with the package's vendor; they basically see us as competitors and wish we would die in a fire. My business partners...

How to protect a name for an IPhone app?

I have my IPhone app almost ready. Now I would like to give it away to testers in ad-hoc mode. How do I protect the name of my application so that no one steals the name during the test? ...

Regex to replace reg trademark

I need some help with regex: I got a html output and I need to wrap all the registration trademarks with a <sup></sup> I can not insert the <sup> tag in title and alt properties and obviously I don't need to wrap regs that are already superscripted. The following regex matches text that is not part of a HTML tag: (?<=^|>)[^><]+?(?=<|...

Can I use an open source framework in a project I plan to profit from?

I'm building a CMS on codeigniter. I'm modifying codeigniter in small ways to make it work with my ideas more seamlessly. But I wonder - are there any restrictions on how I can profit from it? I would think I could build a website with the CMS and charge for it. But what if say, later on I buy a server and set up several accounts for sev...

Where / how often do I need to show trademarks and registration marks for 3rd-party software?

In the application my company publishes, we refer to 3rd-party software in several places: user manual, in the application UI itself, etc. Are we legally required to display the trademark or registration mark symbols next to the trademarked/registered names of 3rd-party software? If so, must they be displayed every time the name is men...

Is naming a software product the same as [someone else's] book legally problematic?

I came up with a name for a software product I'm developing. It's composed of two common English words put together (for example, Firefox, Silverlight, etc.). I Googled the name to see if it was being used by any other software product before committing to it. After finding none, I did notice that there is a book published around 60 year...

Can I use Contonso and Adventureworks in my own manuals and samples?

Does anybody know whether one is allowed to use these trademarks in our own examples or documentations? The wikipedia page does not mention this. Maybe someone already did this and already researched it. At the moment I need nice example html-newsletters I can show in the manual for my software, but marketing etc. also need nice sample ...

Usage of a third-party registered trademark in a "blaming" domain name (with "anti" prefix) - is this legal?

Hello. Suppose, there is a hypothetic software product "ExampleProduct" on the market with BAD quality and BAD support. But the company selling it, does not care. "ExampleProduct" is a registered trademark (I hope it is not, actually. This is just a name taken to make an example, if you get me ;))) ). Is that legal to create www.anti-...

Adding a TM superScript to a string.

I need to add the TM(trademark) superscript symbol next to a title in a C# string. is there anyway to possibly do this? Thanks! ...

How to insert trademark symbol in LabelField on Blackberry

I'm trying to figure out how to add a trademark symbol on a LabelField in Blackberry API v5.0. Can anyone please help me? Thx in advance. ...

Trademark & Domain name

I'm currently embarking on a new web-project. I've already decided what domain name I want to register. However, I'm still a bit nervous about registering the domain name. There's someone else from a remote country with an international trademark which is very similar to my prospective domain name. His trademark consists of two words, ...