jwflory
commented
3 years ago Currently working on this. I have an outline (below). Also noting some links for future reference:
Links of reference
- Minimum Viable Governance — Trademark policy
- Model Trademark Guidelines
Outline
- Intro
- What are trademarks?
- Why trademarks matter in Open Source
- Separating company and project trademarks: When to do it?
- Resources
- Conclusion
Content classification
Is this about an existing page or a request for a new one?
Request for a new page, category, or section. The title of the new content is: "Trademark strategies" If a page, it will belong to this category: "Law & Policy"
Content description
The need for a clear trademark strategy is growing in awareness in FOSS. It is not a new need though, as shown by these existing examples:
Providing guidance, tips, and advice on how to approach trademark in a sustainable way as a business is helpful advice to standardize in the Open Source Mentorship programme. Providing advice on how to distinguish a product, add-ons and other extensions (both open and closed), and other components with Open Source I.P. meets a mentorship need for the Acceleration Funding cohort.
Consider examples like the following:
Another helpful pointer is GitHub's Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) document on trademark policy.
This Twitter poll available for a convenience sample on categorization.