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    Hugo, the company in question (the US Geocode Inc)  has nothing to
    do with TomTom, but your link is quite interesting in any case.<br>
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    Simon<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 23.05.2013 15:04, schrieb Hugo
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          <div>Hi Simon,</div>
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          <div>that you may nor hear from them might be very true: see
            here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              title="http://www.geocode.com/"
              href="http://www.geocode.com/">http://www.geocode.com/</a></div>
          <div>Is apparently part of TomTom, so if you need more info,
            might be handy to check with them. They are Dutch so if I
            can oblige, let me know, Hugo</div>
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                <div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
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                    href="mailto:simon@osmfoundation.org">Simon Poole</a>
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                <div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:38 PM</div>
                <div><b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    title="talk@openstreetmap.org"
                    href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">openstreetmap</a>
                  ; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    title="osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org"
                    href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a>
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                <div><b>Subject:</b> [Osmf-talk] Use of terms similar to
                  "GEOCODE"</div>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> <br>
                      As I promised in February I investigated with our
                      North American counsel what they would consider
                      acceptable use of terms similar to the GEOCODE
                      trademark, they came back with  examples that they
                      all considered OK. I've created a wiki page for
                      future reference <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                        href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocode_Trademark">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocode_Trademark</a><br>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>I apologize for the delay, I
                      was waiting for some closure on the matter,
                      however the company in question has not responded
                      to our correspondence. Personally I don't expect
                      to hear from them again since it now must be clear
                      that there is no money in it for them.<br>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Simon<br>
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