Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (235 mails)

[Michael Loeffler <michl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Moin, 

cc'ing Kelley and Dave who are working at Corporate Marketing at Novell - the 
trademark owner.

Kelley, Dave can you tell us if the "TM" is always necessary for openSUSE logo 
usage ?

Thanks
Michael 
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 21:33:32 Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every time I read "openSUSE TM" (on t-shirts, and everywhere where we
> use the logo), I start crying. Do we really have to put the "TM" symbol?
> It makes the whole thing look ugly, and, as far as I know, it is not
> necessary to use it (see [1], [2], and more if you search on the web).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>
> [1]
> http://www.secureyourtrademark.com/2007/11/trademark-registration-symbols.
> html [2]
> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_legally_necessary_to_constantly_use_the_tr
> ademark_symbol_if_the_same_trademark_appears_repeatedly_in_an_article_or_is
> _using_the_symbol_once_at_the_beginning_of_the_article_enough

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