[Conferences] Trademark policy for "PyCon" conferences

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 03.06.2014 12:17, John Pinner wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> On 2 June 2014 18:34, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at python.org> wrote:
>> Dear conference organizers,
>>
>> the PSF board has recently discussed and voted on a new trademark
>> policy for the term "PyCon". Our main intent is to protect the
>> name from unwanted third party use for the benefit of the Python
>> community. We simply don't want to run into another python.co.uk
>> trademark situation:
>>
>> http://pyfound.blogspot.de/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html
>>
>> We have not yet put this up on the website, but since the question
>> has come up, I'd like to share it with you via email as upfront info:
>>
> <snips>
> 
>>
>> As you can see, we have tried to grandfather all existing
>> PyCon conferences that we could find and are aware of into
>> the resolution.
>>
>> If you have questions, please let me know.
> 
> As I understand it, to protect the trademark, all authorised users
> should include this acknowledgement
> 
> PyCon (TM) is a registered Trade Mark of the Python Software Foundation
> 
> as at pyconuk.org and pyconuk.net (in the footers)

We are still in process of registering the trademark, so it would be
better to use:

"""
"PyCon" is a trademark of the Python Software Foundation.
"""

CTM registration in Europe:
https://oami.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/012595419

TM registration in the US:
http://trademark.markify.com/trademarks/uspto/pycon/86190060

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director
Python Software Foundation
http://www.python.org/psf/