Arduino founder calls out startup, Kickstarter in trademark dispute(wired.com)

8 pointsby zaaaazvor 14 Jahren3 comments

Arduino founder calls out startup, Kickstarter in trademark dispute

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/smartduino/

2 comments

jacquesmvor 14 Jahren

This is a classic case of trademark confusion. The question is what the best course forward is, and I'm not 100% sure I see a way out in which both end users and the Arduino TM holder would all benefit. If he sues then a good chunk of the money that was deposited by KS backers of the project will be spent on lawyers, if he doesn't he's making it clear that the Arduino trademark is not defended which will lead to a lot of copy-cats.

Tricky situation.

escaped_redditvor 14 Jahren

I thought arduino was open so others could copy it and even build new versions of it?

digitalWestievor 14 Jahren

The arduino guys have drawn a pretty good line in my opinion. They've allowed various clone to be similarly named as a sort of homage but smartduino is crossing a line in my opinion.