<div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div>One more v quick thing, for the record only:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> by suggesting a lawyer i was not thinking 'litigation', but should the 'culture' message not</div>
<div>get anywhere, lawyers tend to be able to find the right arguments (in this case the de facto trademark argument)</div><div><br></div><div>I agree there are too few decent lawyers around (and one of the reasons why I will continue to study jurisprudence, to defend</div>
<div>myself from bad /would be lawyers all around the world)</div><div><br></div><div>from a related conversation:</div><div class="im"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><div>
<br></div><div>I am not going to argue the point about de facto trademarks here, :-) however a trademark does not need to be registered</div><div>to exist its just more tedious to protect</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ufficiobrevetti.it/en/trademarks/trademark_home.htm" style="color:rgb(42, 93, 176)" target="_blank">http://www.ufficiobrevetti.it/en/trademarks/trademark_home.htm</a></div>
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<div>I heard with interest about the forthcoming Barcamp Glasgow
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think I took part briefly in Barcamp Edinburgh at Informatics one year
go or so)</div>
<div>, but have not seen the entry in the <a href="http://barcamp.org" target="_blank">barcamp.org</a>
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<div><a href="http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/interactivescotland/is-events/is-events-details.aspx?itemId=%7B39CC350E-1618-4E4D-ADF1-E1DA6485A463%7D" target="_blank">http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/interactivescotland/is-events/is-events-details.aspx?itemId={39CC350E-1618-4E4D-ADF1-E1DA6485A463}</a></div>
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<div>I probably wont be able to attend personally on that day</div>
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<div>While I do not have a problem that Scottish Enteprises is
planning to bring in some firms to talk, and helping to promote the
barcamp culture</div>
<div>I am worried that this is not at all Barcamp, and nor it is
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barcamp style' event, in the sense that there is no mechanism for</div>
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<div>There is now wiki where people can enter their talks,
yadadiyada</div>
<div>you know the score</div>
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<div>I would be glad if someone (preferably a lawyer) could talk
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the organisers and inform them politely of what a Barcamp is, and that
although Barcamp is not officially trademarke afaik), it would not be
good practice to use a very well known 'brand name' to organise
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anyone willing to look into it further, and suggest the appropriate
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