BizDocs:
"BIZdocs® Document Management System"
http://www.ees.com.tr/?p=002&l=1
Registered Trademark Symbol:
"The registered trademark symbol, designated by ® (the circled
"R") and also known as a racol[citation needed] (derived from Registered &
Authorised Company Logo), is a symbol used to provide notice that the preceding
mark is a trademark or service mark that has been registered with a national
trademark office."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_trademark_symbol
From: Peter F Brown (OASIS Individual Member)
[mailto:]
Sent: 27 October 2010
20:38
To: 'Pim van der Eijk'
Cc:
Subject: RE:
[oasis-charter-discuss] Re: Proposed Charter for OASIS Business Document
Exchange (BusDox) TC
I’m
a native European English speaker and BusDox just doesn’t do it for me. I agree
with Jon that BizDocs is sharper and clearer, whatever any feeling there may be
about “Biz” being an Americanism…
BizDocs
doesn’t seem to be a claimed as a service mark or trademark (registered or not),
and certainly isn’t claimed as such by either e-bizdocs.com or bizdocs.com, the
two potential contenders.
In
the case of E-BizDocs the fact that they have sought protection of a company
slogan as a trademark but explicitly *not* the name “BizDocs”, would
reinforce this PoV…
Cheers,
Peter
From: Pim van
der Eijk [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 October,
2010 08:55
To: 'Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress';
Subject: RE:
[oasis-charter-discuss] Re: Proposed Charter for OASIS Business Document
Exchange (BusDox) TC
Very funny. (At least, I'm assuming this is
intended to be funny. But I can't really tell, as I'm not a native speaker
of English).
You may have noted that some of the co-proposers of this
charter are native speakers of English. I will check
again, but as far as I know it was one of them that actually proposed
this abbreviation. I never questioned the abbreviation as I
only got involved in the discussions when the abbreviation "BusDox" was already
there.
FYI, there is also an OASIS DITA BusDocs SC.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita-busdocs
DITA BusDocs means "DITA Enterprise Business Documents
SC"
It looks like the vast majority of the members of this SC are
native speakers of English.
A quick Internet search seems to show that BIZdocs is some trademark,
so it would violate the following TC process rule:
"The name of the TC, such name not to have been previously used for
an OASIS TC and not to include any trademarks or service marks not owned by
OASIS".
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
I'm tempted to continue but I think I should stop here.
From: Ray
Denenberg, Library of Congress [mailto:]
Sent: 27 October
2010 17:27
To:
Subject: RE:
[oasis-charter-discuss] Re: Proposed Charter for OASIS Business Document
Exchange (BusDox) TC
"they
will
assume that the work of the group has something to do with
buses
and then puzzle unfruitfully over what "dox" could refer
to."
I didn't
have any trouble with "dox". I assume it meant "docks" and that the spec had to
do with where to park buses.
--Ray
