RE: Community Input Requested on Trustees' Intent to Renounce "IETF Secretariat" Trademark

Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen@me.com> Tue, 15 April 2014 02:14 UTC

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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:13:56 -0700
From: Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen@me.com>
To: Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Community Input Requested on Trustees' Intent to Renounce "IETF Secretariat" Trademark
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AB,

Why do you think this has *anything* to do with "marketing" ???

Trademarks are there to protect brands and owners, so that somebody 
else cannot cause confusion by using the same name/mark/logo.

That's all.

Ole


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