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+# Trademark registration
+
+Notes on trademark registration for Sigsum:
+
+ - Purpose: protect users, e.g., we don't want users to mistakenly download
+ malicious tooling from zigsum.org. Such threats can now be combatted.
+ - Purpose: defensive, prevents someone else from doing a trademark
+ registration that could potentially give us trouble.
+ - Scope: "checksum", "signed checksum", and "time" with verbs like
+ "publishing", "verifying", and "checking".
+ - Scope: class 9 (software) and class 42 (services).
+
+We had some discussion regarding including or excluding class 42. If we do not
+trademark register this, our lawyer explained that someone else could. This
+would be a threat towards our own and others operations of Sigsum services.
+
+The Tor Project has a more [lengthy text][] about trademark registration that
+matches our motivation, intent, and goals.
+
+The proposed decision is to go ahead and trademark register based on the above.
+
+[lengthy text]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220530012234/https://www.torproject.org/about/trademark/