- From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 25 Jul 2013 20:46:27 +0200
- To: "Manu Sporny" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: "Web Payments CG" <public-webpayments@w3.org>
Manu Sporny: > I've just received a cease and desist related to the Web Keys > specification. It turns out that a company called BIO-key > International has a trademark on "WEB-key". I've already done the > search in the USPTO, and this is a valid claim by BIO-key > International. > > http://www.bio-key.com/products/webkey.html It seems to be a merely descriptive mark which does not deserve trademark protection: http://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/detail/manual/TMEP/Oct2012/TMEP-1200d1e6993.xml#/manual/TMEP/Apr2013/TMEP-1200d1e7074.xml What is the position of W3C management regarding this matter? Cheers, Andreas
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