[theme-reviewers] Theme Names

[Chip Bennett]

There are some huge differences:

1) Apple owns the entire App store
2) Apple has an army of paid staffers to enforce their guidelines

WPORG does not own the sole distribution means for Themes, and I would
prefer that the limited time available to the reviewers enforcing the
Guidelines be spent on things far more important/beneficial than conducting
Google searches of Theme names.


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Peter Kakoma <kakomap at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do largely agree with all that's been said, particularly what Chip, Emil
> & Bryan said. However, allow me to throw a spanner in the works.
> This isn't a new issue so we wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel. The
> Apple store has some guidelines and so does the Google Play store (and
> basically all stores that accept stuff from developers)
> To quote the play store guidelines: (edited to leave the bit that matters
> the most here)
>
> *Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior:* Apps must not have names or icons
> that appear confusingly similar to existing products, or to apps supplied
> with the device
>
> Checking if a name has been used before is a simple Google search; takes
> no more than 1 minutes I think.
>  https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=box+site:wordpress.org%2Fthemes
> One basically prefixes the search term with
>
>
> *site:wordpress.org/themes <http://wordpress.org/themes> *
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's what I replied with to the other discussion (didn't realize there
>> was a bigger one at hand):
>>
>> "I agree, it's theme developer's responsibility to not infringe on
>> trademarks and trademark holder's responsibility to protect their
>> trademarks, but impossible for the theme review team (except for in
>> extremely obvious cases) to check for or inform of possible trademark
>> issues."
>>
>> That's the only logical solution. In other words, in the rare event that
>> this issue comes up, I'm sure it will be dealt with by the parties involved
>> or brought to WordPress directly to have the infringing content removed.
>> But, having the team go as far as to Google the theme name to see if it's
>> already been used or check against the USPTO would be insane, that's the
>> theme developer's due diligence to make sure their theme/product names are
>> unique and original, as in not taken.
>>
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