Python trademark under attack -- the PSF needs your help

[Giles Coochey]

On 14/02/2013 21:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> The Python Software Foundation is the organisation which protects and
> manages the "boring" bits of keeping a big open source project alive: the
> legal and contractual parts, funding for projects, trademarks and
> copyrights.
>
> If you are based in Europe, or know somebody who uses Python in Europe, the
> PSF needs your help.
>
> There is a company in the UK who has applied to trademark the name "Python"
> and are claiming the *exclusive* right to use the word "Python" for
> software, servers, and web services over the entire European Union.
>
> You can read more about this here:
>
> http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html
>
> If you have documentation of European user groups, trade associations,
> books, conferences, scans of job advertisements for Python programmers,
> software that uses some variation of "Python" in the name, etc. your
> evidence will be helpful in defeating this attempted grab of the Python
> name.
>
Err... 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=python

One would think that is enough. 8,457 published results - practically 
all of them referring to Python (the language), none to my knowledge 
referring to python.co.uk

Surely and open/shut case.

-- 
Regards,

Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS
NetSecSpec Ltd
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