[IAEP] Sugar Labs potentially a trade mark infringer

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Kevin Cole <kjcole at dc.sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:09, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Compare "Breakout"[1] with "Break Out"[2]
>> I haven't checked the USPTO's database, but I'm fairly certain that Atari
>> would have registered it.
>
> And though IANAL, I recall from a previous exploration that names that
> are similar are found to be infringing, unless they are being applied
> to very different animals.  For example, if I have a hardware store
> and name it McDonald's, I'm not competing with a company that sells
> fast food.  I win: I'm not in violation. However, if I have a game
> that looks, tastes and smells like "Breakout" and bears the strikingly
> similar name "Break Out"... Bzzzt. I lose.
>
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> Kevin Cole
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Yes. So we need to get the name changed on that activity. Any new name
suggestions?

-walter

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Walter Bender
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