[advocacy-discuss] Mascot, was Re: Logo Feedback

[Simon Phipps]

On Mar 27, 2008, at 14:43, Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2008, at 09:13, Laurent Blume wrote:
>>> Simon Phipps a écrit :
>>>> He/she is just gorgeous, thank-you. Has my vote as you'd expect :-)
>>>
>>> Since you were the one raising the legal issues, isn't the fact that
>>> Coca Cola has been using the polar bears for years an issue now?
>>>
>>> http://www.coca-colastore.com/coke/catalog/product.jsp?id=W10385&navAction=jump
>>
>> Undoubtedly needs looking at, yes. At some point we'll have to ask  
>> Sun
>> to spend money on that for us (unless we have come into an  
>> inheritance).
>
> I don't think there will be an issue given that one is a Beverage
> company and the other is operating systems :-)

It's actually not as simple as that - check out dilution[1] - which is  
why I'd still want to ask Sun to get their lawyers to look at it for us.

S.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_dilution