{"id":11908688,"date":"2019-09-07T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/trademark-issue\/"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:26:10","slug":"trademark-issue","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/trademark-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Trademark issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m the author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/contact-form-7\/\">Contact Form 7<\/a> plugin. Thanks for creating this nice plugin. I like it and I&#8217;d like to recommend it to our users, but a trademark issue seen in your plugin name makes it difficult.<\/p>\n<p>We own the trademark right on the name &#8220;Contact Form 7&#8221;. For details about our trademark policy, please read this post.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/contactform7.com\/trademark-policy\/<\/p>\n<p>You can resolve the issue if you change the name to anything that doesn&#8217;t include &#8220;Contact Form 7&#8221; at the front, such as &#8220;CF7 \u2013 reCaptcha v2&#8221;. &#8220;XXX for Contact Form 7&#8221; is OK for us as long as you distribute the plugin from WordPress.org.<\/p>\n<p>I fully understand you have no bad intention to violate others&#8217; rights, so I believe you&#8217;ll kindly comply with this soon.<\/p>\n<p>For others interested in trademark protection on the WordPress Plugin Directory, have a read through this post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"HD0KzNvuSJ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/plugins\/2019\/08\/08\/trademark-enforcement\/\">Trademark Enforcement<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Trademark Enforcement&#8221; &#8212; Make WordPress Plugins\" src=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/plugins\/2019\/08\/08\/trademark-enforcement\/embed\/#?secret=WJUCMeXjrq#?secret=HD0KzNvuSJ\" data-secret=\"HD0KzNvuSJ\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-11908688","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11908688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11908688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11908688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}