[Objectbridge-developers] ObJectBridge trademark conflict

[Mahler T. <tho...@it...>]

Hi all,

I have been contacted by the company actional. They have a trademark for the
name "Objectbridge" and asked me to change the name of our "product".
See quoted mail below.

I think I will not help to argue that there is no trademark conflict with
things like:
- OJB is not a "product"
- "ObJectBridge" is syntactically different from "Object bridge" 
  or "Objectbridge"

Do you have any Ideas?

If we are forced to change the name do you have any suggestions?
here are my :
- ObJect's bridge
- ObJectBridges
- ObJectRelationalBridge
- JavaBridge

regards,

Thomas

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Use of term "Objectbridge"
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:54:51 -0700
> From: Linda <li...@ac...>
> To: tho...@ho...
> 
> Dear Mr. Mahler,
> 
> I noticed that you have used the name Objectbridge for your 
> software.  Unfortunately the name Object bridge was 
> trademarked on 6/23/96 by Visual Edge Software and has been 
> in use regularly as our product name.  You can confirm this 
> through the patent and trademark office's website.  I 
> noticed that your product is in beta version still and hope 
> you might be able to please chose another name for your 
> product which would not conflict with ours. 
> 
> Many thanks for your cooperation in this.  You can reach me 
> at li...@ac... (or visit our website at 
> actional.com).  Actional Corporation was formerly Visual 
> Edge Software. 
> 
> -- Linda
>