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<\/a>Copyright notice from ISO 9001:2015<\/p><\/div>\n
Going further, ISO Secretariat Legal Advisor\u00a0Holger Gehring said:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0The posting of our standard is illegal because our standard is copyright protected [if] we did not grant permission to post it on [a] website. Copyright protection of our standards is indicated on each page of our standards.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n But in <\/span>the DNV presentation,\u00a0posted on a website here<\/a>, not only did DNV strip out the ISO copyright entirely, cropping the bottom of the page, but replaced it their own copyright claim, even adding DNV’s logo in the bottom corner of the page.<\/span><\/p>\n All in all, about 6 – 8 pages of the ISO 9001:2015 Committee Draft were reproduced in whole or part by DNV, and not a single copyright or trademark attribution is given to ISO.<\/p>\n In a further problem for the registrar, the presentation uses the official logo of ISO without attribution or indication of permission.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oxebridge notice: logo is TM ISO. Despite what DNV says.<\/p><\/div>\n The graphic appears to have been taken from a presentation<\/a> given in 2012 by Nigel Croft of the consulting firm The Croft Alliance, from a seminar hosted by DNV. The latest DNV presentation not only fails to attribute the logo to ISO, but does not attribute the source as The Croft Alliance. In fact, it appears The Croft Alliance also used the ISO graphic and logo without permission. The use of ISO’s logo is particularly troublesome, according to Scott Sisun, an attorney with the law firm Carter Ledyard and Milburn, which represents ISO in trademark disputes:<\/p>\n The misappropriation of the identical ISO trademark constitutes, inter alia, trademark infringement, false advertising and unfair competition, as well as dilution, in violation of Sections 43 (a) and (c) of the US Trademark Act, 15 USC section 1125(a) and (c) as well as under state and common law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Making matters worse, there was a $10 to $55 fee associated with the event, violating the regulation against “reproduction for sales purposes.”<\/span><\/p>\n This is at least the second time this particular DNV representative has reproduced draft ISO 9001 standards for the purposes of marketing DNV services. A similar presentation<\/a> was given in 2007, but in that case nearly the entire<\/em> draft standard was reproduced and included the use of the ISO logo. The presentation does not attribute any copyright or trademark to ISO.<\/span><\/p>\n Will ISO pursue an infringement case against DNV? By their own rules, they may not have a choice if they want to defeat the argument that they enforce their rights selectively. Failing to do so may impact on any current infringement cases they have running:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>