At 10:45 am today, receieved an email from Linden Lab:
Hi Guy,
We’re contacting you about your use of the name SL Brand. As you know, you’ll need to change the name to comply with our trademark policy at http://secondlife.com/corporate/brand/trademark/. The name SL Brand — indicating Second Life Brand — is extremely likely to create confusion about [...]

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Cisco Live! Pavilion – Second Life
The final step in any development, is the deployment. The time that you release to the world your new offering. I always enjoy these moments and believe that they should be marked with some sort of celebration or at least a big cheer. But usually, with the [...]

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As a builder in Second Life®, there are plenty of daily woes, mainly due to the asset server and the overall fragility of the platform. These issues have been spoken about ad nauseam that I now just chalk them up to bleeding edge technology issues and try to build enough of a deadline buffer [...]

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We are getting close to finishing the update of Los Arboles in Second Life®. Main building is done, the office complex is complete, the theater has been completely revamped to inlcude some of the art I have been collecting and tonight the Night Owl and CosaNostra Pizza got a complete rework. All I [...]

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Sometimes changes mean a lot of little things need to get done.
Well once my lawyer informed me that it would cost to much to defend my trademark name issue with Linden Lab®, I started looking for a new name. Then it was pointed out to me that I am spending more and more of [...]

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Lots of emails today on Cisco in SL on Second Life Cable Network and last week’s episode of Real Biz in SL, Cybergrrl Oh got a tour of Cisco’s four islands by Christian Renaud
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I did a little research on the Second Life trade mark. Looks like the Linden Lab just got them in February, about six of them. That explains the timing of this crap.

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From Massively – April 1
Linden Lab’s PR agency have responded to our list of questions about assorted Second Life trademark issues, related changes to the Terms of Service and so forth with a notice that rather than answering the questions directly, Linden Lab is preparing another blog post which is intended to address many of [...]

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The more I think about it, the madder I am getting about the new trademark policy from Linden Lab in regards to Second Life and the usage of “SL” in naming. When I started in April 2006, I read through all of the copyright guidelines just to make sure that using SL was [...]

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