User talk:OlivierA
Bonjour Michel & all
I propose to launch an inquiry about the notions of Collective trade mark, Product certification and Certification mark, and their different translations into the main national laws.
That kind of marks, usualy used for agricultural products, may be usefull to defend a marks like OpenID which is for now conceived as a Trade mark (TM), in my opinion in a inappropriate way.
The problem for OpenID is crucial at the moment because its unformal legal galaxy has to shape itself very soon.
I.e a project for the status of the OpenID France association http://wiki.openidfrance.fr/wakka.php?wiki=Statuts2
This inquiry follows Olivier Zablocki's work on the "rule of use" (?) ("Réglement d'usage" in Fr.) in the context of the french notion of "Marque collective de certification" (Collective mark aka CM???). Olivier Zablocki's help would be very helpfull to fullfil this inquiry. I hope he will accept to sign in the wiki. Of course the help of everybody here is also welcome.
Some links:
English legal context
French legal context
Europeean context