[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 1, Issue 80

Wed Sep 22 01:59:27 CEST 2010

well some good news I think I did a few searches at
+http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp
+http://www.copyright.gov/
+http://www.uspto.gov/patents/index.jsp
+http://www.uspto.gov/ip/index.jsp
+All 4 have no results for mageia so it looks like he only has the rights to mageia.com and possibly the Isn't is magic he has on his website...
+no clue if any search would produce a result if pending.
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+From: "LinuxBSDos.com" <finid at linuxbsdos.com>
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+Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 1, Issue 80
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+
+>
+> Thats an important issue. Is it a legal problem?
+>
+> 2010/9/21 David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com>:
+>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:05 -0400, Lawrence A Fossi
+>> <darkfoss at comst.net>
+>> wrote:
+>>
+>>> It's inevitable that Mageia would be claimed on some accounts.. a quick
+>>> Google turned up 1 US business 1 guy on Twitter
+>>> and a second with JA-Mageia..all on page 1 of the search
+>>> http://sites.google.com/site/johnwellssr/home
+>>
+>> Ouch! ?Is this a show stopper for the name mageia?
+>> http://mageia.com/
+>>
+>> The domain was registered in 2001, with the ownership hidden
+>> by Domains by Proxy. ?The sites.google.com, and the
+>> "Recent Site Activity" link on mageia.com shows it's
+>> being maintained by "John Wells Sr".
+>>
+>> Note that the logo consists of the site name in a stylized
+>> script, with the phrase "Isn't it magic", as the "future Web
+>> home for Mageia Minerals of Chassell, Michigan". ?The site
+>> consists of a single page hosted on sites.google.com. ?The
+>> recent activity indicates it was all created July 26th, 2010.
+>>
+>> While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect
+>> a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong
+>> site.
+>>
+>> Is this going to be potential legal problem?
+>>
+
+Could be. I think the team failed to do something very basic before they
+made a final decision on the name - mageia.org, mageia.com, mageia.net
+mageia.eu. Maybe they did and did not think it was something to fret
+about.
+
+Hopefully it is not, but it does not look good from my end.
+
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