The man who popularized the phrase Web 2.0 over the past couple of years has been accused of dropping a lawsuit on an Irish non-profit organization for using the term in "flagrant violation" of O'Reilly's trademark.
Valleywag IT@Cork, which has received a cease and desist letter regarding its just-around-the-corner posted about the out of the blue legal missive emanating from attorneys at CMP Media:
Basically O'Reilly are claiming to have applied for a trademark for the term "Web 2.0″ and therefore IT@Cork can't use the term for its conference. Apparantly use of the term "Web 2.0″ is a "flagrant violation" of their trademark rights!
Ironically I invited Tim O'Reilly to speak at this conference last February and his response (which I received on 15th of February) was
I would love to be able to do it, but my schedule is just too full for an additional international trip.
So Tim was aware of the event in February but decided to wait until 2 weeks before the conference to set the lawyers on us.
As I mentioned, IT@Cork is a not-for-profit organisation and doesn't have the resources available to O'Reilly - what do people suggest we do?
In some stories, reporting can't replace simple observation of the response to an issue. So we'll indulge in that now.
TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington, a lawyer himself,
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