Re: Pervasive PostgreSQL Announcement - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Pervasive PostgreSQL Announcement
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Msg-id 41E3F8F4.1010300@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Pervasive PostgreSQL Announcement  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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>>I assume "Pervasive Postgres" is their trademark, not just "Postgres".
>>That seems OK to me, no?
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>I'm not sure...if they called their site Pervasive Red Hat or Pervasive
>Software Research America or Pervasive 2nd Quadrant, we'd all agree that
>it was wrong.
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Except that we don't have a trademark on postgres as far as I know.
We (the community) have a trademark on PostgreSQL, so there is
no infringement.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



>That looks like clear infringement to me to claim that they ever could
>have a trademark on the phrase "pervasive postgres"...
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