BeMail(TM), Tracker(TM), Be(R), BeOS(R), and BeIA(TM) are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Be Incorporated in the United States and other countries. Other brand product
names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
All rights reserved.
Looks like you guys are going to have to give BeMail a new name.
Any ideas yet? Probably makes a lot of sense to do it before you start distributing betas and such.
Or perhaps something else related to Haiku in terms of meaning. Perhaps another language, Italian || Latin || Greek … Icelandic, Old Norse (to please me)
BeMail(TM), Tracker(TM), Be(R), BeOS(R), and BeIA(TM) are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Be Incorporated in the United States and other countries. Other brand product
names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
All rights reserved.
Looks like you guys are going to have to give BeMail a new name.
Any ideas yet? Probably makes a lot of sense to do it before you start distributing betas and such.
As far as the US trademarks.
I went to http://www.uspto.gov/ and it doesn’t appear to be registered.
BeOS is still listed to Palm and listed as dead March 19, 2005.
BeIA is still listed to Be Inc and listed as dead August 22, 2002.
Be and it’s logo is registered with Unicity Properties as live.
There are several trademarks on “Tracker”, didn’t have the patience
to find the one for the BeOS Tracker.
HaikuMail is very OK and pretty obvious if you ask me, but if we have to rename Tracker and/or Deskbar, then that will be just plain sad.
How can anyone copyprotect a word like “Tracker”? To me its like if Apple would copyprotect the color white!
Disclaimer - I’m not a legal expert, but
A trademark is a word, phrase, term, etc. to identify a particular product or service. You can not use that trademark if you have a similar product or service to that particular use of the trademark. The common word Tracker on its own is not trademarked.
For example, for “Tracker” there is a trademark for “Computer software for monitoring patient flow through a medical facility”. The term is also trademarked for “Power operated mobility lifts for loading and transport of powered personal mobility vehicles”. Since the two products are no where close to each other, this isn’t a conflict. I haven’t been able to identify a trademark to the software in BeOS.
The word “Be” itself isn’t a trademark, but Unicity has the name and logo trademarked for providing facial cleansers, etc. Whether someone else could use the name for another trademark depends on how it would impact this company.
In general, it is best to avoid using an existing trademarked term to describe a product just to avoid any issues. However, if it’s used to identify something that clearly can not be confused with another current product or service, then it shouldn’t be an issue.
Trademarks don’t necessarily have to be registered, which you could argue is the case with BeMail. However, since some of Be’s other trademarks have been abandoned (ie. BeIA), you could easily argue it was abandoned for BeMail.
I hope I explained that right, I’m sure I’ll find out if I didn’t.
After all that, I would just say to call it HaikuMail.
BeMail(TM), Tracker(TM), Be(R), BeOS(R), and BeIA(TM) are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Be Incorporated in the United States and other countries. Other brand product
names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
All rights reserved.
Looks like you guys are going to have to give BeMail a new name.
Any ideas yet? Probably makes a lot of sense to do it before you start distributing betas and such.
BeMail and Tracker were NOT trademarks, despite Be’s claims - they never even applied for them. Done trademark searches in the US, UK, Ireland and the EU Community Marks DB, and they’re not trademarks. Believe me.
In addition, with the exception of the US and UK TM’s on the name “BeOS”, Be own the TM’s, not Palm.
Somehow having Be prefixed application names in Haiku sounds wrong, even if it were possible to use them. Although Haiku owns everything to Be and BeOS, it’s not the same thing. HaikuMail, on the other hand, sounds dull and boring. I kind of like the name Post Office. It has the ring of that weird, Be-like humour.
Or how about Mailbag?
Wordnet defines tracker as:
tracker
n : someone who tracks down game
So… You could rename Tracker to Hunter. Don’t we already have RobinHood?
I think its a good idea , so one can actually use a mail application to send mail to someone and doesn’t have to remember what’s the mail application name is and instad actualy mail something.
I think its a good idea , so one can actually use a _mail_ application to send _mail_ to someone and doesn't have to remember what's the _mail_ application name is and instad actualy _mail_ something.
…and so one doesn’t have to remember what the OS name is.
