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ZDNet Australia: Firefox Faces Trademark Squabble

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 16, 2005

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“The Mozilla Foundation may face problems enforcing its
conditions of use for the Firefox browser due to trademark
issues.

“Although it maintains a policy–which was recently criticised
by many developers of the Debian Linux distribution–on how its
trademarks are used, it does not appear to have registered the
Firefox name in Germany and Australia. In the United States and
United Kingdom, the foundation has applied for the trademarks but
approval is still pending…”


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