Re: Debian Perl: Digital Detective

Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:23:25 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.perl,gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
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Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> writes:

> Interesting, but I do wonder how compliant that is with our
> trademark...?

At least in the United States the Debian trademark is only in [1]:

    IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer operating systems;
    Computer utility programs.

My (non-lawyer) understanding of US trademark law is that use in a
non-competing field, such as a character in a book, wouldn't be covered.
I know nothing about non-US trademark law.

[1] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:7n55lw.2.1
    https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:7n55lw.2.2