revise trademark policy #70
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| - **Nature of Use:** | ||
| - Trademarks should be used as adjectives followed by a generic noun, not as verbs or nouns. | ||
| - Avoid using trademarks in plural or possessive forms. |
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This looks a bit silly to me. Everyone I know uses "Hibernate" as a noun all the time, and phrases such as "Hibernate's approach to xxxx" are very common.
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| 1. You must have a policy that contributors and recipients disclose their legal or known names and company affiliations to the administrator of the funds. | ||
| - Do not use the CF Marks in a manner that would disparage the Commonhaus Foundation or its projects (e.g., untruthful advertising, false/misleading promotional materials, etc.). |
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Definitely NAL, but I'm surprised that this is compatible with the 1A. I mean, I understand that "untruthful advertising" and other commercial speech may be regulated, but it's not clear to me to what extent "Community Engagement" really qualifies as commercial, nor that our ownership of a TM has much bearing on that.
Pretty sure people are allowed to go on Twitter and disparage Commonhaus and Hibernate to their heart's content and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.
Is this a common thing to find in TM policies?
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I linked my sources... Have more? =)
I can and will double check. The statement about untruthful materials is sound, but I'll ask with regard to other opinions. ;)
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I guess my issue is that this is in a section titled "Use in Community Engagement". Which doesn't sound like it's really directly about commercial speech.
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good point. Let me chew on it
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It indeed makes more sense in the section you moved it to.
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This is a substantial revision. Sources:
Many of these were based on Model Trademark Guidelines (now in the wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20230625000001/http://modeltrademarkguidelines.org/index.php/Model_Trademark_Guidelines