Re: CUPS Trademark

Michael Sweet <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Jan 2024 19:20:33 -0500

Newsgroups	dev.linux.lists.printing-architecture
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Till/Jorge,

> On Jan 7, 2024, at 10:57 AM, Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your e-mail.
> 
> I am including Michael Sweet as he had made the arrangement with Apple.
> 
> I also include our mailing list as this question could have more people interested.
> 
> Michael, could you tell more?

Apple never went through the process to register the CUPS trademark.  When my previous company had tried doing a trademark on the old acronym (Common UNIX Printing System) and had it kicked back because of the "UNIX" in the name.  So we've only ever had the unregistered trademark protecting the "CUPS" name.

So WRT the OpenPrinting CUPS name, it is totally OK.

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Michael Sweet