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ZDNet reports Linux Mark Institute (the torso ready yesteryear Linus Torvalds to protect the LINUX mark) may hold upward appealing against the determination yesteryear the Australian Trade Mark Registrar to reject to register LINUX equally a merchandise mark. An application to register the score was turned downward end yr on grounds of lack of distinctiveness. Linux Australia’s president stated with reckon to the acquaint proceedings

"The determination of the trademarks travel tin hold upward appealed, in addition to I believe that is inwards progress, withal Linux Commonwealth of Australia is non actioning that…That's beingness done yesteryear the Linux Mark Institute…Their legal squad is going through the process, in addition to nosotros are providing them data equally they asking it, equally they demand access to local documentation, in addition to things similar that, merely we're actually a third-party to it…We're non guide involved inwards the process.".
The initial application caused furore alongside software developers who utilisation Linux in addition to feared that they were at adventure of beingness deprived of the chance to utilisation the term, or would hold upward forced to pay royalties to the mark-owner.

says that this determination sure enough of import plenty to travel into worth appealing. The persuasion of an operating organisation beingness generic has implications that could arrive at good beyond Linux.