[arch-dev-public] Freshen Arch's Graphical Identity (Logo)

[Travis Willard]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:17:03 -0400
Paul Mattal <paul at mattal.com> wrote:

> Jason Chu wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 07:43:40PM -0700, eliott wrote:
> >> I am all for a competition, but I don't know about community vote.
> >>
> >> How about community submissions, and voted on by the Arch devs,
> >> and TUs?
> >>
> >> I don't want to be represented by a piece of talking poop or
> >> anything.. though..i might vote for that.
> >>
> >> I mean...hey... talking poop.
> >>
> >> Did this post of mine even make sense?
> >> *head scratching*
> > 
> > I'd like to hear what the community thought, but not necessarily go
> > with what they choose.
> 
> If we switch the logo, I think we should consider having a trademark 
> search run on our final design(s) and getting our trademark
> registered.
> 
> As we grow, I think we'd like to have some protection against people 
> telling us we can't use our logo.
 
+1

Good call on this one - does anyone know the process for this in the
US/Canada?  How do Trademarks work?  I'm clueless.

--
Travis