[asterisk-biz] Digium enforcing its trademarks

[Brian West]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

>
> The issue is *not* the use of the trademarks within the ad copy itself
> (as you rightly point out), it is the purchase of search
> results/listings for those trademarks via the AdWords process. As  
> far as
> I'm aware, it's perfectly acceptable to have an ad that says "Our
> products are compatible with Asterisk" or "Our products are based on
> Asterisk" or similar copy, but purchasing 'Asterisk' or 'Digium' as a
> keyword to get those ads to show up in searches is not allowed unless
> Digium has authorized you to do so.

That kinda defeats the purpose of adwords if Digium doesn't want you  
selling on that keyword.  Yet another reason I ran away from Asterisk  
I seen the greed coming over two years ago.

/b