[asterisk-users] Zaptel project being renamed to DAHDI

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 05:27:31PM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> Ok so you addressed half of my point....
> 
> How about Google AdWords?  Do you think they will get in the middle of
> a legal battle or just pull the ads?  Will you have to sign up for the
> Digium Foodchain to use DAHDI in your ad?
> 
> The bottom line is to get (D)AHDI in there, Digium, owning the
> trademark, and control of it.

An argument can be made that DAHDI is only entitled to trademark status
as a derivative of their company name, since the phrase is it an
acronym for is merely descriptive, I think.  

That has no bearing on whether Google will sell you the word, of
course.

Cheers,
-- jra
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