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Subject: Re: MobiliX.org: severe charge with trademark issues by "Asterix and Obelix" Reply-To: "Georg C. F. Greve" greve@fsfeurope.org Organisation: Free Software Foundation Europe Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:18:57 +0100

|| On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:24:16 +0100 || Jan-Hendrik Palic palic@billgotchy.de wrote:=20

jp> What about all free projects with names, which are similar to jp> names from commercial names? I think it is more possible to get jp> into trouble with people like Gravenreuth every day those poeple jp> could do their work.

Yes, it is obvious that the Free Software movement has not paid enough attention to this.

jp> Are there people, where you can go, if you have some problem with jp> that, maybe the fsf?

The FSF Europe already tries to do what it can. In fact we got in contact with Werner Heuser of MobiliX immediately when we heard about this and it is not really circumstantial that Till Jaeger (the lawyer of Werner Heuser) is also the lawyer of the FSF Europe. If you read the Heise article, you will even find that we are being mentioned there.

In the earlier case that created a lot of fuzz, the case of Killustrator, we also had Till Jaeger investigate the matter. He was ready to defend the Killustrator project - and would most likely have won. Unfortunately the author of Killustrator and the University he published it from preferred to settle the matter by changing the name.

Regards, Georg