[ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

[Tony Arnold]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 21:56 +0100, Daniel Taylor wrote:
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> stude.list+ubuntuuk at googlemail.com wrote:
> > On a tangent, aren't trademarks automatic? How does this affect other
> > packages, if I produce an application does that mean I can force
> > distros to rename it, and is the policy on trademark to ignore i till
> > someone complains?
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> > - Andy
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> I'm pretty sure its only copyright that's automatic, not trademarks.

I believe trademarks are registered and the owner needs to control use
of the mark or they can lose the trademark status. Kleenex had this
problem many years ago!

Regards,
Tony.
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