Thread: Postgres/PostgreSQL as a trademark?
Trivial question; Could anybody let me know if Postgres and/or PostgreSQL is a trademark or a registered trademark? If it is registered, who has the ownership? Thanks a lot in advance; -- ------ Koichi Suzuki
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Koichi Suzuki <koichi.szk@gmail.com> wrote: > Trivial question; > > Could anybody let me know if Postgres and/or PostgreSQL is a trademark > or a registered trademark? If it is registered, who has the > ownership? Marc Fournier/PostgreSQL Inc. has PostgreSQL as a registered trademark in Canada. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
There's a searchable database at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The only active trademarks it shows with either Postgres or PostgreSQL are variations of "Postgres Plus" held by EnterpriseDB. There's a dead patent on Mammouth that references PostgreSQL that was held by Command Prompt, Inc. Try this form to search for yourself: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchstr&state=l1i5ve.1.1 Seth On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Koichi Suzuki wrote: > Trivial question; > > Could anybody let me know if Postgres and/or PostgreSQL is a trademark > or a registered trademark? If it is registered, who has the > ownership? > > Thanks a lot in advance; > > -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Corp, analytical computing & data management Intelligent Enterprise magazine (CMP), Contributing Editor grimes@altaplana.com http://altaplana.com 301-270-0795
Yes, I saw this company's link from .org's page before. I also found that this company looks not active any longer. The last press in their page was five years ago. 2008/6/26 Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Koichi Suzuki <koichi.szk@gmail.com> wrote: >> Trivial question; >> >> Could anybody let me know if Postgres and/or PostgreSQL is a trademark >> or a registered trademark? If it is registered, who has the >> ownership? > > Marc Fournier/PostgreSQL Inc. has PostgreSQL as a registered trademark > in Canada. > > -- > Dave Page > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > -- ------ Koichi Suzuki
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Koichi Suzuki <koichi.szk@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I saw this company's link from .org's page before. I also found > that this company looks not active any longer. The last press in > their page was five years ago. The company is not active, no, but Marc will have retained the trademark even if he's now closed the company officially. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, June 26, 2008 23:03:58 +0900 Koichi Suzuki <koichi.szk@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I saw this company's link from .org's page before. I also found > that this company looks not active any longer. The last press in > their page was five years ago. Ignore the press section, that site needs a complete overhaul ... but, it is still an active business working with several clients ... - -- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhkEI0ACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvMwzQCcCZaDxcbADjH2cxsLibO8juo6 hnoAn3c/03xD0eSZxXDqoPbvHoTDidSH =3B77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thursday 26 June 2008 17:13, Koichi Suzuki wrote: > Som of an NTT member asked me if he has to state "PostgreSQL is a > registered trademark of xxxx" as we do for Linux. I'd like to no if > I have to do so. You do not need to do so. Unless JPUG has registered it, PostgreSQL is not a registered trademark in Japan. You can ask them easier than I can. Mind you, it would be a good idea for JPUG to register it. BTW, great going on the synchronous standby code! -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco