MobiliX with new name TuxMobil.org
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In the trademark case between the owners of the trademark Obelix and Werner Heuser owner of the project "MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Devices" the last verdict says that Werner Heuser has to withdraw his trademark MobiliX. Therefore he has decided to rename his Open Source project to "TuxMobil" (http://tuxmobil.org).
Nevertheless he is already asking the highest German court to permit an appelation against the decision of the latest instance in court. The appelation will take approximately four years. In the meantime the trademark MobiliX can't be used, except he would be able to give a pawn of 200.000 EURO for this time. The lawyers of Werner Heuser Jaschinski, Biere und Brexl - JBB (http://www.jbb.de) are confident to win the last instance. This would also help many other projects. The number of trademarks ending on "ix", which have trouble with Les Edition Albert René is increasing. Many projects can't effort the high financial risk to fight back.
In autumn 2001 Les Edition Albert René, the owner of the trademark Obelix has charged Werner Heuser. He is the owner of the wellknown open source project MobiliX (now TuxMobil http://tuxmobil.org) . This project provides a plenty of information about UniX operating systems like Linux, BSD and Solaris on mobile computers. Therefore he has choosen a name, which expresses this by a combination of the words "Mobile" and "iX". According to the plaintiff he has choosen a word very similar to their trademark Obelix, because he wants to take advantage of their famous name.
A detailed documentation of the case, containing information about other projects under siege and the written statements of the lawyers JBB, is available online (http://tuxmobil.org/mobilix_asterix.html).
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:09:11AM -0100, Werner Heuser wrote:
MobiliX with new name TuxMobil.org
*- Please update your bookmarks and help by changing all -* *- the links from mobilix.org to tuxmobil.org -*
In the trademark case between the owners of the trademark Obelix and Werner Heuser owner of the project "MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Devices" the last verdict says that Werner Heuser has to withdraw his trademark MobiliX. Therefore he has decided to rename his Open Source project to "TuxMobil" (http://tuxmobil.org).
What about the Mobil Oil company ? (don't know if it still exists, however)
bye,
Jerome Alet