Why dont you register new trade mark, change this slightly and continue? If they have patent only on trademark they got nothing to hold you on technical side of the card (that you in fact developed and that is worth something at least in my mind). Also, trade mark without a commercial basis is worth nothing and you dont have one, yet. I really see no problem for you. Maybe from ethical point of view from ppl your worked with but not from the point of company.
Namely, we registered some patent recently and I found out that ppl are not understanding difference between trade mark and patent. Also, there are two kind of patents and substantive examination patent is the one that you can protect your technical solution fully and that one is tougher to deal with but probalby you (or somebody else) will never be able to get this kind of patent as it is really nothing new in your work. What is valuable is your work itself and trade mark really not problem for you.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton < lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me wrote:
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dam and blast. one thing after another, poor luke and co.
we don't use the word "poor" around here :)
Its silly to murder principles & ethics as thats what makes eoma-* . without the hole libre software mentality you lose so what made eoma-* attractive. It made for assurance of not getting f***ed,
ah, well, you see, that's the hilarious thing: that my associates try to f*** _me_ over, and i started the damn project!! if they try that to _me_, i will tell them it's not ok, and will work to make sure they don't bloody well try it again on anyone else...
... or i leave them behind.
libre software mentality also has practical implementations. for plug&play which which is a huge part of eoma-* you need free software drivers,firmware,software,etc as otherwise it becomes "sorry this is incompatible with your card/cards OS" instance fail for the hole eoma-* idea.
i know alexander. they don't.. they'd rather profit short-term, because they are getting old, and so are running out of time.
l.
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