Re: [open-cobol-list] Open Cobol Trademark

[Keisuke Nishida]

Robert Keane wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I think someone should start a Trademark application.
>
> The following is from the *Trademark Electronic Search System(Tess):
> of the *United States Patent and Trademark Office, when searching for 
> open cobol.*
(snip)
> Live/Dead Indicator     DEAD

Does it mean that, in the U.S., "open cobol" used to be a trademark
in the past, but it isn't now?

I guess in some countries we can use OpenCOBOL.  In other countries,
we can't.  What would happen if we continued using OpenCOBOL?

I have no good idea about alternative names.  We don't need to think
about it once we completely switch to GCC-based COBOL compiler, but
it won't happen soon :(

Keisuke