Who’d have thunk it?
Well, it turns out that using the WikiWord “NavData” has upset Jeppesen Sanderson because they’ve got a product with that name, and they’ve sent me an email telling me to stop using the word or they’ll start legal action. I’m still using the word “navdata” because lots of people use it as a generic word meaning “navigation data”. So my Wiki url is still http://xcski.com/navdata/, but all deep links you might have are broken. Replace the word “NavData” with “DAFIFReplacement”.
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:58 GMT
One wonders if they’re going after the people who own http://www.navdata.net.
August 23rd, 2006 at 13:05 GMT
http://www.navdata.net is in the hands of domain speculators. I think you’d have a hard time convincing a court that “domain speculation” was a legitimate business use of the word, so if the speculators decided to fight, they would have to fight on the generic-ness of the word.
August 23rd, 2006 at 13:43 GMT
[...] After receiving the email I mentioned in Rants and Revelations » Who’d have thunk it?, I responded with I have renamed the part of the Wiki that uses the trademarked word “NavData” to “DAFIFReplacment”. However, I am going to continue to use the “/navdata/” part of the URL as that is a generic term and untrademarkable and changing would break people’s bookmarks. You can have a look at http://xcski.com/navdata/ if you wish. [...]