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W3C Trademarks

Author:Jim Correia
Posted:9/24/2000; 9:51:07 PM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 9/24/2000
Msg #:21683 (In response to 21676)
Prev/Next:21682 / 21684

Disclaimers: I am not a trademark lawyer, and I am tired and ready to head off to bed.

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice-20000612#W3C_Trademarks

It doesn't look to me like they are claiming HTML as a trademark, but list it as generic usage (no TM symbol there). However, they do appear to have trademarked CSS and XHTML. (Going back to the not a trademark lawyer disclaimer) Perhaps HTTP and HTML were in common usage so it was too late?

I don't know their motivation for trademarking these terms. Could have been as simple as they didn't want them hijacked and used for something else not representative of their original purpose. That would entirely make sense, IMO.

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