Hey all, I got of the phone from the lawyer from SFLC and they're going to help us in trademarking the logo and name. I just wanted to write an e-mail to make sure I'm not screwing it up :) Name: Inkscape Phrase: Draw Freely Logo: /usr/share/inkscape/icons/inkscape.svg They are going to do a trademark search to ensure that no one else has trademarked anything similar (to the point where we'd need to differentiate) and come up with a "category" for us to file in (I'm guessing it'll be "computer graphics"). Thoughts after that will be to get a usage policy built that is fairly simple but ensures that Adobe can't make "Adobe Inkscape" without asking us first :) Any issues?

Ice Weasel

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ted Gould wrote: > Thoughts after that will be to get a usage policy built that is fairly > simple but ensures that Adobe can't make "Adobe Inkscape" without asking > us first :) This is extremely unlikely. On the presumption that such a lawyer thing costs real money, perhaps you should to a threat analysis to determine what the real legal threats are to inkscape. I would suggest the accidental inclusion of patented or incorrectly licenced code is far more likely a problem, and such time would be better spent on that. Realistically, a large corp wouldn't want the bad pr that came from stealing a well known name (and would most likely be immune from attack). Small operators rebadging inkscape or using the name are not worth the effort/cost of attacking - inkscape is a very well known brand and people would quickly socially discourage such behaviour.