RE: Hopefully last draft of AL

Dan Sugalski <[email protected]> wrote:
>At 02:29 PM 9/22/00 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
>
>>Can't a trademark be used to protect "Perl", even if the code is in the
>>public domain?
>
>Dunno. Probably, but I'm not a lawyer, and that might be taking things to
>places we'd rather not go.

IANAL either, but yes you can.

A quick check on http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/tm.html shows a bunch
of "Perl" variants registered (incl Perl-win32)...but there's only two
simple "Perl"s, and those are both for some meat product. (Perls of swine?)

Registration might well be a good idea; someone needs to come up with
the ~$1k it takes to register, but it does help deal with the problem
of someone labelling a variant as Perl when it doesn't have Larry's
seal of approval.
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