[ogb-discuss] Using the X Window System trademark as an example? Re: Creating a place for AMD-related work

[Alan Coopersmith]

John Plocher wrote:
> [Moving over to trademark-policy-dev]
> 
> 
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> X  Window  System  is a trademark of MIT (or was at one time).
>>
>> It's my understanding that the trademark was lost in one of the
>> many changes of control of X over the past two decades (MIT ->
>> X Consortium -> Open Group -> X.Org Group -> X.Org Foundation),
>> but if it was still valid, it would be an excellent example of
>> one we'd want to allow.
>>
> 
> What mechanism does/did they have to control usage of the mark?
> Could anyone use the mark for whatever they wanted, or were there
> policies that dictated content or functionality requirements?

The Open Group has a X11 test suite to test compliance with the
X11 protocol and library standards, which is used as part of
the Unix98 Workstation branding requirements, but I'm not aware
of anything specifically for use of the X Window System trademark.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering