From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Werner Heuser Subject: Trademark Trouble: MobiliX wins Against Obelix Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:11:27 +0200 Sender: linux-laptop-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D087DDF.C63E5E33@web.de> Reply-To: Werner Heuser Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org" In the hearing from June 12th the court=20 has rejected the arguments of "L=E9s Editions Albert Ren=E9". The court says=20 the words "MobiliX" and "Obelix" can hardly be mixed up with each other. Also the work of MobiliX=20 is dedicated to another audience. This is a great success for the Free Software Community. MobiliX is a very wellknown site dedicated to Linux and BSD on mobile devices (like laptops, PDAs, cell phones and more). In November 2001 Werner Heuser, owner of=20 the Open Source project MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Computers=20 (http://mobilix.org) was charged by "L=E9s Editions Albert Ren=E9",=20 which is owner of the trademark "Obelix".=20 In their opinion the names Obelix and MobiliX are very similar. The charge aimed on a deletion of the trademark "MobiliX" and a compensation fee. The charge has been discussed in many newsgroups and mailing lists. It seems to be a very important case for the Free Software Community, because there are many projects, which names are also ending on "iX". Some other projects have even silently withdrawn=20 there names, because the financial risk of loosing a trademark case is high. The documentation of the case is available online (http://mobilix.org/de/mobilix_asterix.html). It includes the letters from MobiliX lawerys=20 Jaschinski Biere Brexl - JBB (http://www.jbb.de). --=20 |=3D| Werner Heuser =3D Keplerstr. 11A =3D D-10589 Berlin =3D Germany |=3D| T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86 |=3D| http://MobiliX.org Linux and BSD on Mobile Computers |=3D| http://Xtops.DE Laptops+PDAs pre-installed with UniX |*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-laptop"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html