[9fans] Plan9 Trademark ?

[9fans] Plan9 Trademark ?

[mattmobile]

Is "Plan 9" trademarked?
IANAL but there could be a problem

http://www.plan9software.com/

Re: [9fans] Plan9 Trademark ?

[Pietro Gagliardi]

Plan 9 is an incomplete name. That company refers to themselves as
PLAN9, which is not trademarked. "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" is the full
name of the OS, and it is copyrighted. I don't know if "Plan 9 from
Outer Space" is copyrighted.

On Feb 2, 2008, at 8:37 PM, mattmobile@proweb.co.uk wrote:

> Is "Plan 9" trademarked?
> IANAL but there could be a problem
>
> http://www.plan9software.com/

Re: [9fans] Plan9 Trademark ?

[Charles Forsyth]

> Plan 9 is an incomplete name. That company refers to themselves as
> PLAN9, which is not trademarked.

"Plan 9" is a registered trademark in the USA (reg 2065577, `operating system computer programs').
It is registered to Lucent Technologies Inc.  That registration is in class 9, which is huge,
but the United States puts reasonably tight bounds on the scope of a trademark based on
the description of the Goods and Services within that class (unlike, say, the messed-up CTM system).
The apparent products of Plan9 Software is software consultancy, cheerful people who give you `thumbs up'
and a program called Qualify that is fully buzzword compliant with a suitably dire user interface
(to judge from the screen shots).  The software isn't called Plan 9, nor is it an operating system,
and the set of cheerful people immediately prevents association with the registered trademark.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 Trademark ?

[Charles Forsyth]

> The apparent products of Plan9 Software is software consultancy, cheerful people who give you `thumbs up'

sorry, i meant `products ... are'.  also i expect they make loadsamoney from their Qualify software whereas
we've obviously been reduced to using the cheapest PCs from Walmart.  they don't even run Windows!