<div dir="ltr">I will point to this email thread and hope it is enough :)<div><br></div><div>We probably could get a trademark on PROJ (as trademarks are often for a specific industry).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 June 2016 at 16:38, Frank Warmerdam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com" target="_blank">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Jody,<br>
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I am not aware of a trademark. I don't see that we need one, and I am<br>
somewhat dubious if we could get one for something as generate as<br>
"Proj" or "Proj.4".<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Frank<br>
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Got an interesting request today asking about Proj4 trademark, and if the<br>
> name "Proj" can be used by the Proj4j project.<br>
><br>
> I am not aware of the a trademark being obtained (although OSGeo can<br>
> certainly do so on behalf of the MetaCRS project). Reviewing commit history<br>
> shows an initial commit that already included a CHANGE-LOG stretching back<br>
> to 95/9/10 for "cartographic projection software" :)<br>
><br>
> So the question is - does a TM exist for PROJ? If so who should I talk to,<br>
> if not do we want to obtain one?<br>
> --<br>
> Jody Garnett<br>
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