Linux History as a Sequel of Trademark Cases

I am the former owner of MobiliX, which is now TuxMobil. Because of a severe charge by Obelix the trademark MobiliX had to be withdrawn. During the case I became aware of other trademark issues in the "Open Source", the "Free Software" and commercial Linux world. Please note not all of the cases went to court and were solved in a friendly manner. Some happened even in the so-called "community".

project	moved to	opponent	date	source
Linux		William R. Della Croce, jr.	1996	more
TheOS (The de Raadt, OpenBSD)		THEOS Software Corporation	1998	more
Samba		CMG	2001	more
Gnutella		Nutella (Ferrero oHG)	2001	more
Killustrator		Adobe	2001	more
MobiliX	TuxMobil	Asterix and Obelix	2002	more
Lindows	Linspire	MicroSoft	2002	more
Krayon		Seidel Softwareservice	2002	more
Mozilla: Phoenix	FireBird	Phoenix Technologies	2002	more
Mozilla: FireBird	FireFox	Firebird Project	2003	more
Skrobelix	Skroblin GmbH	Asterix and Obelix	2003	more
Linux		GFvG	2003	more
LinuxGazette (NET)		LinuxGazette (SSC)	2003	more
FreeCraft		WarCraft II (Blizzard)	2003	more
MobICQ	Jimm	AOL	2004	more
XAMPP (Apache)		N.N.	2004	more
eMule, eDonkey		N.N.	2004	more
Mandrake		Hearst Holdings	2004	more
wxWindows	wxWidgets	Microsoft	2004	more
Linux Australia Inc.		Linux Australia Pty Ltd.	2004	more
Tux		Tux LLC	2004	more

This survey is not yet representative (centered to German cases). There are probably other cases. Is this survey the tip of the iceberg? Some cases just don't become public, because of certain lawyer strategies. If there is a case missing above, please send me a note.

Werner Heuser <wehe_at_tuxmobil.org>