<font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It's like if Ford Company would sue Chevy because they use the word "automobile". Nobody will ever win anything. This is indeed between you and the commercial guys, however as far as WPORG guidelines you're safe and you did not break any rules whatsoever. Commercial Themes should "turn-off" auto updates and "roll" with their very own anyways. Infinity Theme name is now officially yours, nobody else can "come" and claim the same name and yes not even the commercial Infinity Theme. We operate on first come, first served basis.</font></font></font><div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emil<br></font><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Justin Tadlock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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"Stallion SEO Theme" wouldn't be allowed based on the name anyway,
so you're safe. :)<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 6/29/2012 7:19 PM, David Law wrote:<br>
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<div>As a premium theme developer who hasn’t submitted their
theme to the WordPress theme repository I could
theoretically be on the other side of this issue one day,
named my theme “Stallion SEO Theme” which should be unique
enough. I would be curious what would happen if another
theme developer tried to obviously ‘squat’ a theme name
that’s unique enough that it’s highly unlikely to be a
mistake? Infinity is so generic it would only be a matter of
time before someone used it, Stallion SEO Theme unlikely.</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3">Not your fault this has
happened, there’s at least one way for premium theme
developers to hook into the WordPress auto update
feature, I use this one <font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://w-shadow.com/blog/2011/06/02/automatic-updates-for-commercial-themes/" target="_blank">http://w-shadow.com/blog/2011/06/02/automatic-updates-for-commercial-themes/</a>
when added to a theme, the theme acts like a theme
in the repository with regards updates. Not sure
what would happen if a theme with the same name was
added to the repository as well while using the
above. I’ll have to check with a test site and if it
does add the code others have suggested. This is why
I subscribe to this list, keep an eye on what’s
going on <img style="BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE:none;BORDER-LEFT-STYLE:none;BORDER-TOP-STYLE:none;BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE:none" alt="Smile" src="cid:part2.00030508.07000500@justintadlock.com"></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I assume you’ve
started at version 1 for your theme, you could suggest
to the other theme developer to go to say version 10
so it’s highly unlikely the themes will clash again,
would be a really quick fix for them.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Also since you
already have the Infinity name in the repo, if they do
eventually submit to the repo they’ll have to choose
another name.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3">David</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="designcoralblog@gmail.com" href="mailto:designcoralblog@gmail.com" target="_blank">Mike Dave</a>
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 29, 2012 11:32 AM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [theme-reviewers] About My Theme
"Infinity"</div>
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<div style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Calibri';display:inline;font-weight:normal">Hello Admin,
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<div>My Theme <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/infinity" target="_blank">Infinity</a>
is available to public in WordPress Repo. I have submitted
my theme by keeping the WordPress Guidelines in mind
especially about name. I have searched the WordPress
directory for the name "Infinity" and there was not any
theme related to Infinity, so i decided to choose the
name.</div>
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<div>Now i have received an email from <b>PressCrew</b> and
a part of email is as follows,</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Congratulations
on your Infinity WordPress Theme, it's looks great.
Sadly there's a big issue that has popped up for our
WordPress project that has the same name.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Our Infinity is also a free WordPress
Theme and has been released about a year ago (</span><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" href="http://infinity.presscrew.com/" target="_blank">http://infinity.presscrew.com</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">). We've build a great community of
users of the past year, and it has become a valuable
tool our users. Currently our theme is in beta 3 and
thousands of people have downloaded it.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Why am I telling you this? Because
today all our users got prompted to update to a new
version of Infinity through the WordPress dashboard.
We were extremely confused because we had not pushed
out any update <b>(since the theme is not yet in the
repo!)</b>. It turns out that it's actually
WordPress thinking that your version of Infinity is
the theme that's being used by our users. In practice
this means that several of our users have accidently
overwritten our theme with yours. I don't have to tell
you the implications this has for our users.</span></blockquote>
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<div>So what you people suggest me about this issue.</div>
<div>Waiting for response.</div>
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<div>Take Care</div>
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