beelinebill January 17th, 2008

In response to an increase in the occurrence of unauthorized use of Digium trademarked terms, we have recently expanded our efforts to control the use of Digium’s trademarks. One of the measures taken has been to work within Google’s defined programs to control the purchase of Digium trademarked terms as Google Adwords.

In doing so we proactively provided Google with a list of companies that have signed agreements with Digium permitting the use of Digium trademarks. Google will continue to allow organizations on that list to purchase Digium trademarked terms as Google Adwords.

If, however, your organization has been contacted by Google and required to stop using the Digium marks, you may contact Digium directly to request that your company be added to the list of authorized organizations.

For those organizations that are resellers and partners, that are not formally Digium authorized, we invite you to become a reseller or technology partner. To do so please visit http://www.digium.com/en/ecosystem/ and click through to your selected type of partnership.

If the formal Digium programs don’t fit your situation, you may send a request to the trademarks@digium.com email address with some history of your past use and the specifics of your request for the future. Additionally, Digium routinely grants trademark rights to organizations seeking to use the marks for non-commercial uses in support of the Asterisk community. Once again, please submit requests of this nature to trademarks@digium.com.

The complete Digium trademark policy can be viewed at http://www.digium.com/en/company/view-policy/5. We apologize for any inconvenience caused and will work to turn around all requests within 24-48 business hours.

Thank you for your interest in Digium!

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