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Preliminary Injunction Against SuSE

Posted by Hemos on from the time-to-get-out-the-fish dept.

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.

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  1. Probably again the prostitute agency by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... against the open source program BitchX... hehehe

  2. Re:Stupid Stupid Stupid by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 0, Troll
    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...

    But nobody is clearly impinging on a trademark.

    For example, Adobe does not hold a trademark on the English word "illustrator". They have the mark "Adobe Illustrator". "KIllustrator" is very far away from "Adobe Illustrator"; a drunken first grader could tell the difference.

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