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You need to ask either a lawyer who works for your company (if there is
one) or Pentaho Corporation itself.
TECHWR-Lers love to offer legal advice, and it's about as valid as
technical writing advice from a lawyer.
I know of a handful of companies who insist on having (TM) appear after
every instance of their trademark.
BTW, the symbol for a registered trademark is (R) -- not (TM). And yes,
it's important to use the right one.
HTH,
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tammy Van Boening
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:46 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Trademark question
>
> I have to create an Installation and Configuration Guide that
> addresses the installation and configuration of KETTLE (an
> ETL tool) for a Fiserv project. KETTLE is a trademark of the
> Pentaho Corporation and in regards to representing this:
>
> On the Front Cover of the Guide, I have it listed as KETTLE(tm)
> Installation and Configuration Guide and in the Front Matter,
> I have put a catch-all disclaimer that KETTLE is a trademark
> of the Pentaho Corporation and that all other products and
> company names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
> respective owners. Anywhere else that I refer to KETTLE, it's
> just KETTLE without the (tm) symbol. I have differing opinions
> being offered on this - the way that I am approaching it is
> the way that I have approached (registered) trademark
> information in many, many previous lives (and it's the way
> that has passed legal scrutiny in these lives), but I have a
> few naysayer's that want the TM after every occurrence of
> "KETTLE". Thoughts, etc. are appreciated.
>
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