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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006>Guys,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006>Below is discussion and attached are guidelines
from our legal counsel regarding protecting the OSGeo name and
logo.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006>Regarding 2) below, I checked with Aaron (the logo
creator) and he created the compass from scratch, which was good to hear.
(Nice work Aaron!)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2><SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
color=#000080><FONT face=Verdana>Proposed Action:
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2><SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
color=#000080><FONT face=Verdana>Daniel to add "Open Source Geospatial
Foundation, OSGeo, and the OSGeo logo are trademarks of the Open Source
Geospatial Foundation in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and/or other countries
worldwide.”<FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> after the copyright notice on
the bottom of the home page.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2><SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2><SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
face=Batang color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Proposed Action Once Logo Tagline is
Finalized: </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2><SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
face=Batang color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Daniel creates a Logo and Usage page
that hosts the logo as pdf, .ai, and .eps downloads, with the text in the
attached Trademark Guidelines making up the body text of the
page.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2><SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
face=Batang color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2><SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
face=Batang color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Peter</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left>
<HR tabIndex=-1>
<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Jennifer Daehler <BR><B>Sent:</B>
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:16 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Peter Moran; Rich Steele
(richsteele@osgeo.org)<BR><B>Cc:</B> Steele, Rich<BR><B>Subject:</B> OSGeo
trademarks, guidelines & attribution<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi Peter and
Rich,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sorry this is a long email. I
want to catch you up on several trademark-related things for OSGeo.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1. I am considering the
following to be OSGeo trademarks:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“Open Source Geospatial
Foundation”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“OSGeo”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">the OSGeo logo (see attached .pdf
that you sent me yesterday Peter)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">and, any other tagline that OSGeo
might select (if they do)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What about any trademarks/logos that
individual projects might select for themselves? This isn’t really clear
to me. Do you have a sense of what the intent is here? (For example
MapGuide Open Source).<FONT face=Verdana><FONT color=#000080><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
color=#000080><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2. Due
Diligence:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- I asked Christine to do some basic
trademark searches for “Open Source Geospatial Foundation” and “OSGeo” to make
sure that we weren’t treading on anybody. These came up clean based on a
USPTO search and a google search. <SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
face=Verdana color=#000080> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006> </SPAN> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- it is difficult to do logo
searches (either informally or by paying outside counsel a lot of money).
As a result, I don’t recommend trying to do a logo search. Part of the
logo is our names (and those are clean as mentioned above). The other part
of the logo is a compass. This seems like a fairly generic compass, though
I don’t know if the person who proposed it would have copied it from somewhere
else. I think the best diligence on that might be to simply ask the person
how they devised the compass. If they copied it from somebody else’s logo,
that would be a problem (trademark and potentially copyright). If they
copied it from somewhere else (and it wasn’t part of someone else’s logo), then
there might be a question of copyright infringement, though there are certainly
generic aspects to compasses that might not even be
copyrightable. <FONT face=Verdana><FONT color=#000080><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN class=700274916-26052006><FONT
face=Verdana color=#000080></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3. Trademark
Guidelines:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- I’ve drafted the attached proposed
trademark guidelines. These are really simple/common guidelines – see some
comments I’ve inserted in them. If they seem appropriate, I would
recommend that they be added to OSGeo.org. I’d probably create a link to
them on the home page, right next to the links for “Terms of Service” and
“Privacy Policy”. <FONT face=Verdana><FONT color=#000080><SPAN
class=700274916-26052006> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">4. Trademark Attribution on
OSGeo.org:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- I would also recommend adding the
following: “Open Source Geospatial Foundation, OSGeo, and the OSGeo logo are
trademarks of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and/or other countries worldwide.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This should be added as a next
sentence after our copyright notice on the bottom of the home
page.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">5. Trademark Attribution to be
used by others:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- See my proposed guidelines, under
“Proper Attribution”. We want others to attribute the OSGeo marks that
they use to OSGeo – they’ll use a derivative of “Open Source Geospatial
Foundation, OSGeo, and the OSGeo logo are trademarks of the Open Source
Geospatial Foundation in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and/or other countries
worldwide.”, citing only the marks that they actually use.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Let me know your thoughts.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-
Jennifer<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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