RE: Hopefully last draft of AL

Garrett Goebel wrote:
>
>From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[email protected]]
> > At 05:18 PM 9/22/00 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
[...]
>It doesn't look like Larry'd have a good chance of trademarking "Perl"
>anyways. Then again, I don't know much about trademarks.

I think that you actually can have trademarks on the same name
in different areas as long as there is no possible confusion...

>Current PERL trademarks
>(http://trademarks.uspto.gov/access/search-bool.html):
>
>Name                       | Owner
>===============================================================
>PERL                       | PERL, INC.
>[Camel Logo] w/ Perl       | O'Reilly and Associates
>[Book Logos] w/ Subject    | O'Reilly and Associates
>PERLEX                     | ACTIVESTATE TOOL CORP.
>The PERL DEVELOPER NETWORK | ACTIVESTATE TOOL CORP
>THE PERL CLINIC            | ACTIVESTATE TOOL CORP
>VISUALPERL                 | Activestate Tool Corp.
>PERLCOM                    | Activestate Tool Corp.
>PERLSCRIPT                 | ACTIVEWARE INTERNET CORP.
>UNIPERL                    | Activestate Tool Corp.
>
>Perl, Inc. is a classified under goods and services:
>- CANNED MEATS
>- DATE OF FIRST USE: 1977.02.18
>
>So everything that isn't chopped liver appears to be owned by O'Reilly and
>ActiveState. That appears to be the state of things.

Think chopped liver and a computer language will be confused?
I don't. :-)

> > >Isn't there (or couldn't there be) a "Perl Foundation" to
> > > provide such services?
> >
> > Hey, we could set up an Institute! Yeah, that's the ticket! :)
>
>We could all be institutionalized ;-)
>
>Actually, it looks like O'Reilly and ActiveState are the defacto Perl
>Institute.
>
>If Larry is happy the O'Reilly's integrity and use of the Camel Logo...
>Could we not release Perl into the public domain, and then use the Camel
>Logo to qualify it as the offical "Core Perl" distribution?
>
If Larry is happy, he can probably take out a trademark and
have O'Reilly take care of the details.

Cheers,
Ben
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