That servicemark appears to only be valid for television animation and/or live action production. <a href="http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=doc&state=ep20be.2.1">http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=doc&state=ep20be.2.1</a> As long as Sugarlabs isn't doing any Service in animation (Sugarlabs can still produce animation for itself) it should be fine with regards to *this* servicemark. --Seth <div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Luke Faraone <luke@faraone.cc> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi all, What are we doing to protect our name, that of SugarLabs and Sugar as an educational project? I did a quick search at TESS (USTPO's search site, <a href="http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk" target="_blank">http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk</a>) and it lookes like someone registered "SUGARLAB" in June of '08. -- Luke Faraone <a href="http://luke.faraone.cc" target="_blank">http://luke.faraone.cc</a> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div>