Re: Merely descriptive mark Re: [IMPORTANT] Trademark violation for Web Keys

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch> wrote:

> Am 25 Jul 2013 20:46:27 +0200
> schrieb "Andreas Kuckartz" <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>:
>
> > 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:
>
> I'd suggest that that is a battle which is not worth fighting from our
> perspective.
>
>
FWIW I agree that this is really not worth fighting and to just come up
with an alternative name would be a more productive approach.

p.


> "Secure Web Messaging" is a better name for what we used to call
> Web Keys anyway, IMO.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>