discuss: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment
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Re: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment
From:
"Dennis Comeaux" ####@####.####
Date:
10 Jan 2002 02:30:52 -0000
Message-Id: <000d01c1997e$d1894d90$2e71b142@workstation>
People, the empty mail to ####@####.#### and to
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How is it that I get out of this list again?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Wright" ####@####.####
To: ####@####.####
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6
months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark
infringment
> I must say I am disgusted. A major company such as those who own A&O
trademarks are splitting hairs, arn't they? I don't think that proceeding
with legal action is right nor proper in this case, it is quite clear if you
read the site (even before there was a page about it) what topic it
discusses, I have read the A&O comics and I am a great fan of them but I
cannot (and could not) see any relation between Mobilix and Obelix, no
logos, no one-liners, nothing.
>
> Just my .02.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:25:30 +0100
> Kurt Pfeifle ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> > Off topic -- cross posting is deliberate...
> >
> >
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> > ## 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty to Linux
Documentation Author --
> > ## for infringing comic character "Obelix" through free Laptop support
Website "MobiliX"??
> >
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> >
> > After having gotten a request (in June 2001) from German legal
> > representatives of "Les Editions Albert Rene" (Paris), holder of the
> > trademarks "Asterix" and "Obelix", to unregister the name MobiliX,
> > they now took legal action against Werner Heuser
> > ####@####.#### well-known amongst Linux-laptop users for
> > authoring the "Linux-Mobile-Guide" (formerly called the Laptop-HOWTO),
> > published by the Linux Documentation Project.
> >
> > MobiliX (http://mobilix.org/), his own website, is dedicated to
> > "Mobile UniX systems" on laptops, PDAs, cell phones and more. It
> > carries lots of useful hands-on information about installing and
> > running Linux and BSD on laptops, PDAs and other mobile computer
> > devices -- and of course it is free to use via the internet. It exists
> > since five years and besides the famous site "Linux on Laptops"
> > (http://www.linux-laptop.net) by Kenneth E. Harker it seems to be
> > biggest resource on this topic.
> >
> > MobiliX is an acronym of the words "mobile" and "UniX". To avoid legal
> > trouble, Werner had registered this name at the German trademark
> > register in 1999. It is a common practice to build new names for Unix
> > related topics from a word naming the topic and adding the letters
> > "iX" at the end. Some examples are: AIX, Eurix (Comfood), Sinix
> > (Siemens-Nixdorf), SkroBelix, Skyrix, Ultrix, Xenix. The German
> > computer magazine iX is even just named by these letters. The name
> > Unix itself is a registered trademark of AT&T, X/Open. The very
> > name Mobilix is already registered for a German manufacturer of
> > children furniture -- but don't seem infringed, because of the
> > different industry they are in. Before the legal action, Werner didn't
> > reference in any way towords comic characters Asterix or Obelix on his
> > web pages.
> >
> > The name of his website MobiliX.org is supposed to be mistaken for
> > Obelix, according to the charges.
> >
> > The trademark Obelix was registered by German lawyer Guenter Freiherr
> > v. Gravenreuth. The legal charge is up to 250.000 USD or six months
> > prison. The costs of the first instance are app. 15.000 USD. Werner
> > Heuser has decided not to withdraw the name "MobiliX". He is supported
> > by the German lawyers Jaschinski, Biere und Brexl - JBB
> > (http://www.jbb-berlin.de).
> >
> > This case is another one in the recent series of trademark troubles
> > for Free Software projects (SAMBA, Kylix, Kilustrator, SELFHTML, SuSE,
> > ..). Therefore this case is very important not only because many of
> > these projects have names ending on "iX".
> >
> > Current news about the case are at
http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html
> >
> > Please support Werner to fight this attack.
> >
> > [submitted by Kurt Pfeifle ####@####.####
> >
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