Trademark Terms
Protecting Trademarks
In order to protect a trademark, the trademark holder must consider two important aspects:
passing off: Whether someone uses the Python logo or something similar such that people could be confused by an association to Python where there isn't one.
dilution: Associating something that doesn't look exactly like the logo with Python (thereby making it harder to argue for the association between Python and our specific logo).
Examples
- Someone is using something other than the Python mark to represent Python:
This isn't a problem, since the trademark is not affected.
- Someone is using the Python mark to represent something other than Python.
If the Python mark is used to market goods or services in the same classes as the ones for which the Python mark was registered, this is a problem.
If the Python mark is used to market goods or services in the different classes than the ones for which the Python mark was registered, this is not a problem for the trademark.
- Something related to Python uses a mark that is related to the Python mark.
This can be a problem, if the related mark causes a dilution of the Python mark.
Trademark Classes
We currently have the PYTHON text mark registered in the US for these classes as mark 76044902:
IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer programs and downloadable computer programs that implement an object-oriented computer programming language. FIRST USE: 19951013. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19951013
IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: Providing information relating to an object-oriented computer programming language and its development environment. FIRST USE: 19950718. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19950718
The Python logo is not yet registered in the US. Note: It is not even clear what we mean with Python logo, ie. just the two snakes graphics or the snakes and the text "python" written next to it using the font Flux Regular.
Both the text mark and the logo are currently in preparation of being registered world-wide in a number of countries.