Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Thiago Avelino wrote:
The question is this. exists, the body of registered trademarks and patents, a company with the name openoffice. has only one image. nothing more. This is why the open sun, in Brazil, was broffice
Originally, you said "patents and trademarks."
he made a mistake.
He may have, but I'd rather Thiago explain what he really means.
People are asking about patents, but you keep explaining why trademarks are a problem.
once again: the name "OpenOffice" is registered in Brazil by a private company and therefore it cannot be used by a software product. To circumvent this, the local community is using the name :BrOffice" instead.
yes, he said that several times. It has nothing to do with the patent claim which, as you say, may be a mistake.
I was curious about the trademark issue, so I pointed Google at Brasil and did a search. I didn't find the trademark owner (which doesn't mean a lot), but whoever it is is going to have a lot of trouble defending the mark. Whatever the folk behind broffice.org do, there are lots of other people using the term "open office" (which isn't its name - another trademark problem I think) to refer to the software.