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@ebullient ebullient commented Aug 15, 2025

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Provide clarity that Projects must ensure we/they have sufficient funds to cover creation/maintenance/etc. of registered trademarks.

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FWIW, this is akin to this page: https://docs.oscollective.org/for-hosted-member-projects/trademarks-and-ip

Management of trademarks is similar, and works through the same legal counsel.

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This vote has been closed by ebullient:

Proceeding! Thanks to all for responding.


✅ 12 of 17 members of @commonhaus/cf-egc have voted (reaction or review, quorum=2/3).

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approve 12 12 Naros, aalmiray, bstansberry, cowtowncoder, criccomini, dandreadis, ebullient, henri-tremblay, kenfinnigan, tristantarrant, velo, yrodiere[^alt]

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@ebullient ebullient changed the title 📝 Update TOCs; Trademark costs & responsibility 📝 Update TOCs; Trademark costs & responsibility [due Sep 15] Aug 15, 2025
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@ebullient Looks like the bot registered my comment as an ok vote.

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@ebullient Looks like the bot registered my comment as an ok vote.

That is how I originally designed it: "Review with Comments or react with 👀 (:eyes:) if you're "ok" with it (it may not be your favorite)". I will take PR comments out of that. Seems a reasonable thing to do.

@ebullient ebullient force-pushed the trademarks branch 2 times, most recently from 63c414c to 5b3fde3 Compare August 19, 2025 11:34
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LGTM, but I'll let Gavin himself confirm.

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Naros commented Aug 19, 2025

Outside of the clarification point raised above about the source for legal costs beyond retainers, this LGTM.

@ebullient ebullient changed the title 📝 Update TOCs; Trademark costs & responsibility [due Sep 15] 📝 Update Ts&Cs; Trademark costs & responsibility [due Sep 15] Sep 9, 2025
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vote::result Proceeding! Thanks to all for responding.

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### Typical Costs (as of February 2025)

- **U.S. Single Trademark Registration** — $1,200 USD
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define if that's per year or a one time fee

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Not per year, but at registration time (lasts for x years). Renewal has a separate cost.

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