[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Lettuce

[James Hooker]

Greens for Human Beings?


On 21 May 2008, at 16:40, Tony Arnold wrote:

> Jai,
>
> Jai Harrison wrote:
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Kris Marsh <moogman at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> http://luiscosio.com/ubuntu-lettuce
>>>
>>
>> That's pretty funny. Lol.
>>
>> But isn't it a trademark infringement on Canonical? Perhaps this is  
>> an
>> authorised use of the Ubuntu logo though I cannot see why Canonical
>> would authorise the use of their logo on lettuce.
>
> IANAL, but given there is unlikely to be any confusion between a salad
> product and a Linux distro, I doubt there is any mileage in pursuing a
> trademark infringement case. It may also be that the food company  
> had it
> first!
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
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