SuSE No Longer Barred From Selling

MobyTurbo writes "According to a press release SuSE is no longer barred from selling Linux as reported and discussed in a thread on slashdot. SuSE is settling out of court with a German company called "Crayon" that claims that the KDE app Krayon violates their trademark. Incidentally, this vulnerability probably applies to several other distributions."

Comments

colorful argument

[cez]

What does Crayola have to say about this?

Re:Wonder if Binney&Smith have heard of this..

[jayhawk88]

Perhaps crayon is considered a general word, like tissue. The trademark name comes from the brand, in this case Crayola (Kleenex).

22,103 defendants

[Alsee]

Crayon Vertriebs has announced that to inhibit any future potential dilution of market value of their brand "Crayon", they intend to seek injunctions against the following 22,103 defendants:

Arayon 49 hits.
Brayon 463 hits.
Drayon 285 hits.
Erayon 30 hits.
Frayon 100 hits.
Grayon 547 hits.
Hrayon 2 hits.
Irayon 20 hits.
Jrayon 22 hits.
Krayon 12300 hits.
Lrayon 5 hits.
Mrayon 8 hits.
Nrayon 5 hits.
Orayon 56 hits.
Prayon 2750 hits.
Rrayon 4770 hits.
Srayon 52 hits.
Trayon 603 hits.
Urayon 2 hits.
Vrayon 5 hits.
Xrayon 17 hits.
Yrayon 10 hits.
Zrayon 2 hits.

At this time Crayon Vertriebs has not named any defendants using Qrayon 0 hits, Wrayon 0 hits, or rayon 467,000 hits. Crayon Vertriebs reserves the right to name additional defendants in the future.