DR 13-0006 — General: Improper use of trademarks

[Chris Rae]

I have been investigating the changes necessary for DR 13-0006, which requests that trademarks are acknowledged correctly in all parts of ISO/IEC 29500. The DR mentions specifically "PivotTable", "Microsoft" and "Excel", but requests that other trademarks are taken into account.

I haven't made any effort to track down or acknowledge non-Microsoft trademarks as quite honestly I'm not sure how to go about doing that. However, I have done what I think is a very thorough pass on Microsoft trademarks. Using the published list at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/trademarks/en-us.aspx, I have scanned all four parts of 29500 and changed any use of Microsoft trademarks to properly acknowledge those trademarks. Some of them were fairly expected (e.g. "SQL Server"; "ActiveX") but some of them were more ambiguous or unexpected (e.g. "Access"; "Calibri"; "Wingdings"). I changed only references in text - use of trademarks inside example data or field values I've left as they were to retain compatibility.

During the course of this I learned that Microsoft has some slightly odd trademarks (e.g. "Mouse Mischief"; "Woman in Red").

There are a lot of changes to the standard required as a result of this. There are 491 changes to Part 1 (of which around three quarters are "PivotTable" occurrences). I've attached the changes necessary to all four parts - we should perhaps discuss in Bellevue how exactly to work these into the maintenance schedule.

Chris
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