On Wednesday 12 October 2005 04:54, Marcel Mourguiart wrote:
I top posted, just too say that the cuted text is already responded in a previous mail.
I haven't seen those comments, what was that mail?
Of curse they are careful, in fact normally is illegal to use the (R) or (TM) logo in a country where you don't have those trademarks appropriate registered, so SUSE is protecting it sefl in this case, because is a global product, but the prize ( i think but not really sure ) is that when you don't mark with (R) or (TM) your logo or your brand name, it doesn't been protected by the trademark laws, this is a obligation not an optional, at least that why a remember to have read is some place.
The law doesn't require you to put (R) or (TM) to protect your mark, it just requires you to communicate clearly that it is a registered mark. This is why, for example, you can see trademarks used in books without those brackets, but at the start of the book it will say something like "foo is a registered trademark of bar corporation in the United States and other countries"