<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 17, 2008 6:20 PM, Brian West <<a href="mailto:brian.west@mac.com">brian.west@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Jared Smith wrote:<br><br>> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 06:33 -0800, Flavio Goncalves wrote:<br>>> I have received today a notice of disaproval of my ad in Google<br>
>> Adwords, because it was using the word Asterisk (A Digiumīs<br>>> trademark).<br>><br>> In response to an increase in the occurrence of unauthorized use of<br>> Digium trademarked terms, Digium has recently expanded our efforts to
<br>> control the use of Digium's trademarks. One the measures taken has<br>> been<br>> to work within Google's defined programs to control the purchase of<br>> Digium trademarked terms as Google Adwords. In doing so we
<br>> proactively<br>> provided Google with a list of companies that have signed agreements<br>> with Digium permitting the use of Digium trademarks. Organizations on<br>> that list will continued to be allowed by Google to purchase Digium
<br>> trademarked terms as Google Adwords.<br>><br>> However, if your organization has been recently been contacted by<br>> Google<br>> and required to stop using the Digium marks, you may contact Digium<br>
> directly to request that your company be added to the list of<br>> authorized<br>> organizations.<br><br><br></div>You shouldn't have to contact Digium for such use cases as "Asterisk<br>Compatible" or "Works with Asterisk".
<br><font color="#888888"><br>/b<br></font></blockquote><div><br>You are right but Google does not want to be in the middle and neither would I. <br><br>I just wonder what are the criteria to get Google AdWords approval from Digium if you are not formally Digium authorized or whatever.
<br><br>Jared said you can request approval by "address[ing] with some history of your past use and the specifics of your request for the future."<br><br>I for one will not lock myself into selling a particular product unless it is best for the customer or what the customer specifically wants. That would bar me from being formally Digium authorized.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro<br></div></div><br>