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Bug 1020235 - hitori included trademark'ed name (in description)
Summary: hitori included trademark'ed name (in description)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hitori
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gwyn Ciesla
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: FE-Legal
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-17 10:38 UTC by mejiko
Modified: 2014-01-22 20:14 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-01-22 20:14:40 UTC
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Description mejiko 2013-10-17 10:38:21 UTC 
Hello.

hitori included trademark'ed name. (in description)
"Sudoku" is trademark'ed. (Japan and USA)

and, Meny "sudoku" trademark find. (Try TESS)

Note: I live in Japan. not US. and I am not a lawer.


URI:
 
http://trademarks.justia.com/779/34/sudoku-77934545.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/

If this is "nominative use", Its no problem.


Suggests:

1. Replace trademark'ed name.

2. Contact trademark owner.

3. Remove fedora repos.


Thanks.


Reference:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_Description
Comment 1 mejiko 2013-10-17 10:38:52 UTC 
Blocking FE-Legal, This is trademark problem.
Comment 2 Gwyn Ciesla 2013-10-17 13:12:29 UTC 
I think this is fine, we have GNOME Sudoku as well.  I'll await a decision from Legal but I think we're OK here.  If not I'm willing to change the description.
Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2014-01-22 20:14:40 UTC 
Sudoku is a generic term in the US, not a trademark.
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