They've attracted the required publicity...
...now common sense will prevail.
UK website hoster Veber has binned its bid to exclusively trademark the word “python” in Europe following talks with the Python Software Foundation (PSF). In an agreement described by both sides as “amicable”, Veber will also rebrand its hosting and online backup service that it had called Python. The British company and the …
but it wasn’t awarded a US trademark until 2004. In an email to The Reg, Lindberg asserted the PSF had the right to use Python in Europe due to prior use of the word on the Continent.
Not defending Verber here as I agree that it would cause confusion in the space the trademark was being applied for but...
PSF thought the name was important for them to trademark in the US, but not important enough for them to trademark else where?
Why throw the baby out with the bathwater if they failed to do so and only assumed they had the right when someone else applied for the trademark?
I assume they will now trademark it?