[asterisk-biz] Digium enforcing its trademarks

[Brian West]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Jared Smith wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 06:33 -0800, Flavio Goncalves wrote:
>> I have received today a notice of disaproval of my ad in Google
>> Adwords, because it was using the word Asterisk (A Digium´s
>> trademark).
>
> In response to an increase in the occurrence of unauthorized use of
> Digium trademarked terms, Digium has recently expanded our efforts to
> control the use of Digium’s trademarks.  One the measures taken has  
> been
> to work within Google’s defined programs to control the purchase of
> Digium trademarked terms as Google Adwords.  In doing so we  
> proactively
> provided Google with a list of companies that have signed agreements
> with Digium permitting the use of Digium trademarks.  Organizations on
> that list will continued to be allowed by Google to purchase Digium
> trademarked terms as Google Adwords.
>
> However, if your organization has been recently been contacted by  
> Google
> and required to stop using the Digium marks, you may contact Digium
> directly to request that your company be added to the list of  
> authorized
> organizations.


You shouldn't have to contact Digium for such use cases as "Asterisk  
Compatible" or "Works with Asterisk".

/b