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Re: regarding the trademark for "Sender ID"

2004-09-21 11:32:11

In <E7C6F5DD-0BF1-11D9-BE1D-000A95B3BA44(_at_)hxr(_dot_)us> Andrew Newton 
<andy(_at_)hxr(_dot_)us> writes:

It is our opinion that all MARID documents should no longer reference
the output of the MARID working group as "Sender ID" or any other
similar mark.  We believe the risk to the ISOC and the IETF standards
publishing process to be too great.

Huh.


I thought this trademark issue was resolved at IETF-60.  According to
Harry, the Microsoft lawyers investigated it and, unlike terms like
"windows", "word", and "access", they determined that "SenderID" was
generic and could not be trademarked.


See ca 17:25 in:
http://www.xmpp.org/ietf-logs/marid(_at_)ietf(_dot_)xmpp(_dot_)org/2004-08-04.html

More detailed explanations can be heard if you download the audio, but
I deleted my copy so I can't check.


-wayne