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I think https://01.org/clear-SANS and http://clear.positype.com/ are two different fonts? Does the Intel Clear Sans infringe on Neil Summerour's trademark on the name Clear Sans?

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Can you just change the font name?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:28 AM Dave Crossland [email protected]
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They are different fonts with the same name, and theres also a technical
issue: with the gf css local path, anyone with positype Clear Sans
installed will see it instead of Intel Clear Sans.

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Intel didn't want to do that. I'll spoke with Neil about this a while ago
abs I'll see him next week and hopefully resolve it with him then
On Aug 4, 2015 12:31 PM, "Kyle Mathews" [email protected] wrote:

Can you just change the font name?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:28 AM Dave Crossland [email protected]
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They are different fonts with the same name, and theres also a technical
issue: with the gf css local path, anyone with positype Clear Sans
installed will see it instead of Intel Clear Sans.

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@davelab6 any updates here?

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Stumbled upon this issue when I first learnt of this font and grew curious why Google Fonts and Adobe Edge Web Fonts don't host it. Quite a shame IMHO that it is (still) relatively unknown to the bigger part of the FLOSS community.

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silly Intel.

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+1 — and for Overpass (when the v3 proportional fonts are released)

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I was surprised to see that Intel didn't budge on this issue, so I did some digging and discovered something interesting:

• Intel has a blog post on the initial release of Clear Sans, dated June 24th, 2013.
• Mr. Summerour's trademark application wasn't filed until November 23rd, 2013 (citing first commercial use as 10/20/13).

IANAL, but wouldn't that make the trademark invalid/unenforceable? @davelab6

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I found an even older example in the form of this Bugzilla ticket, dated May 29th, 2013, where it was first added to testing versions of Firefox for Android.

They appear to have used it as the default sans-serif font since then without issue.

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I found an even older example in the form of this Bugzilla ticket, dated May 29th, 2013, where it was first added to testing versions of Firefox for Android.

They appear to have used it as the default sans-serif font since then without issue.

Not quite — they removed Clear Sans and fixed all these bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392147#c37

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