Comments on: Trademarked Feed Icon?

by: Mark Woodman

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:56:19 +0000

Thanks, Randy. Regardless, you do have reason to be concerned and we need to keep a sharp out for what happens next. Lets hope the “nuclear option” doesn’t become necessary.

by: Randy Charles Morin

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:51:31 +0000

Actually, I checked and I believe I wrong.

by: Randy Charles Morin

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:50:34 +0000

I believe, the trademark is owned by Mozilla Corporation a for-profit entity, not Mozilla Foundation.

by: Mark Woodman

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:18:51 +0000

I believe Matt is an enthusiast who created and gave away vector art of the icon when Microsoft announced their adoption of it. See Matt’s post on the details.

by: Rob Fay

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:26:54 +0000

In my ignorance, I thought it was Matt Brett who created the icons…does he have affiliation with Mozilla?

by: Mark Woodman

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:24:01 +0000

Touche! Still, the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit and Microsoft is quite profitable. I would expect the motives for a trademark in the two organizations to thus be quite different.

And, I tend to view happenings like this one through the lens of “what have I come to expect from the parties involved.” Just think of our reaction if it was SCO that had filed for the trademark.

by: Randy Charles Morin

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:07:00 +0000

I suspect that if Microsoft invented and trademarked this icon that you would have written something very different.