<div dir="ltr">How about if you only use the text from the logo? "Open Hardware" and a lower caption with something like "compliant" or "verified"? This would mean that the open hardware logo can have a text-only version which can be used for certain applications such as this one. Also, having a completely new logo made for the certification would damage the cost of opportunity for the current trademark, I would think.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 March 2016 at 09:11, Franz Nahrada <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:f.nahrada@reflex.at" target="_blank">f.nahrada@reflex.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" face="Geneva" color="#000000" size="+0">Thanks Jeff,</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" face="Geneva" color="#000000" size="+0">So this is a call for ideas and not the suggestion ("</font><font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="+0"><i>Not this mark — a <b>new one</b>! ")</i></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" face="Geneva" color="#000000" size="+0">I suppose the "electronic background" was just an application example and not part of the logo itself. </font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" face="Geneva" color="#000000" size="+0">maybe the idea "certified" should be reflected in the logo.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" face="Geneva" color="#000000" size="+0">and yes, I understand the old logo now much better, because it is derived from the OSI Logo.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" face="Geneva" color="#000000" size="+0">if we just combine it with the "copyleft" logo ? maybe thats to simple of an idea....</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" face="Geneva" color="#000000" size="+0">Greets from Austria</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Lucida Grande;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000" size="+0"><b>The Open Source Hardware Association Discussion List <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.oshwa.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.oshwa.org</a>> schreibt:</b></font></div><span>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0"><font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="+0">Hi, all! Looking ahead, we'll need a distinct mark for the certification program, so we've put out a call for ideas. Thanks!</font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><a href="http://www.oshwa.org/2016/03/17/open-hardware-certification-mark-call-for-ideas/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0"><font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt" face="Times New Roman" size="+0">http://www.oshwa.org/2016/03/17/open-hardware-certification-mark-call-for-ideas/</font></span></a></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0"><font style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" size="+0">Jeff</font></span></div>
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