[theme-reviewers] Theme Names

[Peter Kakoma]

Hehehe. Good points. Agreed
On 27 Jun 2014 17:20, "Chip Bennett" <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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