Re: Question regarding trademarks

TGLASSEY <tglassey@earthlink.net> Wed, 07 May 2014 15:11 UTC

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Jorge the issues in California pertain to something called CUTSA and its 
use in all IP matters per the 9th Circuit ruling.

Todd

On 5/7/2014 8:04 AM, Jorge Contreras wrote:
> Fred,
>
> See Section 3.4 of RFC 5378:
>
>
>       3.4 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5378#section-3.4>. Rights to
>       Use Trademarks
>
>
>
>     Contributors may wish to seek trademark or service mark protection on
>     any terms that are coined or used in their Contributions.  The IETF
>     makes no judgment about the validity of any such trademark rights.
>     However, the IETF requires each Contributor, under the licenses
>     described inSection 5.3  <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5378#section-5.3>  below, to grant the IETF Trust a perpetual
>     license to use any such trademarks or service marks solely in
>     exercising rights to reproduce, publish, discuss, and modify the IETF
>     Contribution.  This license does not authorize the IETF or others to
>     use any trademark or service mark in connection with any product or
>     service offering.
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <fred@cisco.com 
> <mailto:fred@cisco.com>> wrote:
>
>     I just fielded a call from a Cisco colleague, who is working in a
>     different (open source) forum, and coming up against an issue
>     relating to a trademark. Apparently some company has named
>     something in a product of that forum, and is now wanting to assert
>     trademark rights on the name.
>
>     He asked me what the IETF’s policy in such cases might be, knowing
>     that there are discussions in the IETF that touch on trademarked
>     intellectual property. I couldn’t quickly put my finger on such a
>     policy, although I did find a proposed policy in
>     draft-ietf-ipr-trademarks. Thinking out loud, I suggested that the
>     party with the trademark would likely need to disclose it, and if
>     there was any question on the matter, the IETF might prefer to
>     change the name of the standardized technology, as it did between
>     NetFlow and IPFIX, if only to avoid confusion. But I’m not sure
>     that’s any more than how I might address the issue.
>
>     Do we have a defined policy?
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