[Zope] Re: Zope Foundation Update

[Alexander Limi]

(Sorry about the lateness of this post, a combination of interesting SMTP  
blocks + Zope mailing list policies made this message not come through the  
first time around, which was the 20th of July. I discovered this today  
while browsing the archives.)

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:07:25 +0200, Rob Page <rob.page at zope.com> wrote:

> As an aside, the ZEA has also registered the Plone logo
> as a trademark.  It is not our business, but came as a
> surprise to us, that the Plone Foundation is not the
> owner of the Plone trademark.

This is wrong.

In the early days of the Foundation, we had no proper legal representation  
and asked ZEA to represent us while setting up the legal entity for the
Foundation.

Plone Foundation therefore asked ZEA to assist us with their trademark  
experts to register the Plone trademark worldwide. This is perfectly clear  
 from the publicly available Plone Foundation board meeting minutes.

They did the work on our behalf, and most excellently executed the  
worldwide registration of the mark. The trademarks were transferred fully  
to the
Plone Foundation as agreed.

As a result, Plone Foundation owns the worldwide trademark for Plone.

-- Alexander Limi
    Vice President
    Plone Foundation