On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
On 31.05.2009 07:21, Joseph Smith wrote:
On Sat, 30 May 2009 23:25:32 -0400, Robinson Tryon bishop.robinson@gmail.com wrote:
It looks like the NTT Data company made an announcement in 2007 about their "CoreBoot" thin client:
http://www.nttdata.co.jp/en/media/2007/062500.html
"LinuxBIOS" was rebranded "coreboot" at the very beginning of 2008:
Well that is not good news....
Fortunately, coreboot is a registered trademark of coresystems (Stefan's company) since 2007. The LinuxBIOS->coreboot name change was made long after the trademark had been registered, so I think we're safe.
Oh, okay, good. I tried to find out when NTT first mentioned their products, and the earliest date I can find NTT CoreBoot mentioned is June 25th, 2007: http://www.nttdata.co.jp/en/media/2007/062500.html http://www2.rbbtoday.com/news/20070625/42961.html
Coresystems GmbH filed for registration of "coreboot" with the USPTO on September 20, 2007: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4001:6tn175.2.1
I'm not a lawyer or anything, so I don't really know about how who-did-what-on-which-date matters. I assume as long as people don't confuse the two products, then everything is fine.
--R