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O'Reilly and CMP Exercise Trademark on 'Web 2.0'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-have-confusion-2.0 dept.

theodp writes "On May 16, the USPTO notified CMP Media, which co-presents the Web 2.0 Conference with O'Reilly, that its trademark for Web 2.0 was entitled to be registered. Eight days later, CMP sicced its lawyers on not-for-profit IT@Cork, taking the networking organization to task for not only using the term Web 2.0 for its free conference, but also for linking to a What is Web 2.0 article penned by Tim O'Reilly." It should be noted that their trademark only applies to the titles of industry events (CMP is a show organizer).

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  1. Re:Well then... by MrAnnoyanceToYou · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nah. We just need to go to 2.1, and open source the trademark on that. It's certainly a bigger upgrade than most releases.

    Is anyone else more than mildly disappointed that they own a bookshelf full of O'reilly books after reading this?

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