[ale] OT: sort of it is about OSS

[Pete Hardie]

Trademarks are very different from patents - trademarks can be almost
anything, while patents are mostly inventions - methods/machines/etc.

For example, Disney has the Sleeping Beauty's castle as a trademark, but
it's not a patentable thing, while Goodyear had a patent on the chemical
industrial process for vulcanizing rubber for strrong tires

Pete Hardie
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Has anyone seen this?
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> http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html
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> Are trademarks treated differently that patents? To me it just seems
> like a pile of crap that someone can come along and do that to someone
> who obviously was there first.
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