As already reported on 26.01.2002,
Werner Heuser, administrator of the open source project MobiliX - UniX
on Mobile Computers has received a request from the German legal representative of
"Lés Editions Albert René",
owners of the trademark of the name Obelix, in November 2001. Werner Heuser
sent the plaintiffs a 22 page response (PDF).
His arguments were rejected, though, by the legal representative of the trademark owner.
Werner Heuser: "Remarkable in the document are the insults at the end, which don't seem usual
for writings from lawyers. The legal trouble is documented since its beginning at the MobiliX
webpages and is discussed in many mailing lists and news groups. This seems to have impressed
the plaintiffs. They now accuse MobiliX of inventing "a new kind of electronical terror", and
are ready to sentence MobiliX. It will be interesting to know, which sentence the plaintiff will
invent against critical discussion in newsgroups."
Despite the announcements of the plaintiffs, the case goes on:
The court in Munich (Germany) has set the date for the first hearing to June 12th 2002.
At the title link you'll find more interesting details about this trademark trouble. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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