Eamon wrote:
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Though the question below concerns the IETF's newly approved APEX
specifications, its
could really
be posed for the titles of the output of many working groups within IETF, so I
am posting
this
question to the general IETF list.
I know the official answer to this question is "consult a good trademark
lawyer", and I
know that
engineers are not qualified in trademark law, but would anyone have an
"unoffical" comment
on the
trademark status of the term "APEX".
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It's hard to predict what any given scum-sucking vermin, errr, IPR lawyer
will do in any given situation. IPR lawyers are roughly-equivalent to
ambulance chasers, but I think the exposure is limited--unless our
*specification* called APEX unduly confuses the customers of some
computer/network vendor with a *product* called APEX, there isn't much of
a case. IPR lawyers, however, are notorious for creating entirely-artificial
arenas of conflict where the reasonable person would argue that no such
conflict exists. I speak from bitter experience...
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