Case law

Decisions available here.

Germany

I 20 U 176/11-Enigma (Düsseldorf 24 Apr 2012) (German)

I 20 U 176/11-Enigma (Düsseldorf 24 Apr 2012) (English) - holding that defendant could use the "Enigma" work title for software modified for its hardware platform and configuration as long as the use did not violate generally accepted practices of trademark and commerce, which in the case of open source software means that the essential functions of the defendant's version of the software are identical, plug-ins and/or extensions of third parties remain compatible, and the defendant abides by the conditions of the GPL license.

U 147/09-Luxor (Hamburg 18 Jan 2012)

Poland

II GSK 1551/11-Der Grüne Punkt

II GSK 1646/11-Der Grüne Punkt

New Zealand

KOHA Decision of the Commissioner 91, [2013] NZIPOTM 47

United States

Autodesk, Inc. v. Dassault Sys. Solidworks Corp., 685 F. Supp. 2d 1023, 1027-28 (N.D. Cal. 2009)

FreecycleSunnyvale v. Freecycle Network, 626 F.3d 509 (9th Cir. 2010)

Planetary Motion, Inc. v. Techsplosion, Inc., 261 F.3d 1188 (11th Cir. 2001)

Progress Software Corp. v. MySQL AB, 195 F.Supp.2d 328 (D. Mass. 2002)