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Preliminary Injunction Against SuSE
Random Walk writes "The German news site Heise Online reports that on behalf of an anonymous client,
a lawyer has won a
preliminary injunction (German only)
against the Linux distributor SuSE.
The injunction forbids the delivery of SuSE CDs as long as they contain some program name that apparently violates a registered
trademark. No more details available, but SuSE seems to be in negotiations with the other party." Head over to the fish for translation.
If you're sueing someone from infringing your trademark, why would you want to keep your trademark a secret?
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This point has been discussed a trillion times on slashdot. If someone has a commercial product with one name, and someone else releases a similar product (or even an unsimilar product) that clearly impinges on their trademark, the first party has every bloody right to protect their trademark.
Software authors, think of original names for your products, end of!
This lawyer v. Gravenreuth is quite well known (and hated) in Germany. He's done lots of "Abmahnungen". This means cashing in money for stuff like usage of the term "FTP Explorer" which supposedly violates a Trademark of Symicron (sp?). A case of use of a chipset codename by shops for advertisement is also well-known.
Of course, he only evers goes after smaller fish, but doesn't dare trying the same with bigger companies (unfortunately, or he'd at last get his nose bloody).
I really wonder which name and company this is all about. I'd hate to see SuSE hurt for one of Gravenreuth's usual BS. They definitely need to spend their money on improving their distro, not on laywers (saying this as a long-time SuSE user who is not too convinced of the current 7.3 version).
Instead of being the typical automaton and use the fish, try the google language translators.
Why?
Cause you can directly link to the translated page.
Something Altavista doesn't like.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
How does one find out what names are registered? In every country?
Now, true, KIllustrator was a clear reference, but it was clearly distinguishable, would not cause confusion, didn't run on the same operating system, etc. So a decent lawyer and an honest court would have thrown the case out. But that would have cost a lot of time and money.
Again, possibly the lawyer was at fault, but Adobe didn't say "boo", so I haven't forgiven them, and don't intend to. I no longer recommend Adobe products. Ever. That was before they sic-ed the feds on Dimitry, and I must admit that that was the final touch, but even that first act would have taken quite a while to forgive, just by itself.
Adobe sees that it's big enough to act like a bully. To me this means that I don't want to give them any money or any credit for anything. They are treacherous. Unreliable. And companies that act like that generally fail within a couple of decades (of course there's MS, but Adobe isn't anywhere near that tough, and there are signs that MS is on its way down too).
If you need a graphics program for a Windows or Mac, may I recommend that you look into Deneba Canvas. It's what I use on that side, and I'm quite pleased with it.
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I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Are you joking?
K Illustrator is far from Adobe Illustrator? With the standard of KDE software being Ksomething I would put it to you that they are not at all very far apart.