even though I totally agree to all voices, demanding to say “fuck you” to these iMax people, I have to advise that it’s not to be taken too lightly. International trademark-law is full of pitfals and finally the judge will give you a sentence (not your right!).

Common sense is not helpful with laws.

The arguments given are mostly correct. But please ask a (specialized) lawyer, if iMax does not step back. Any costs would well be covered from the community (I hope).
You may ask for 10 USD from me

Fight for your right. But fight right.

Bye
Joey

i think that IMAX is big enough to close their mouth and pay the bill of the confusion(if any) that could occur because of the similar names and you dont. So i think they should back off.

i go at IMAX cinema(that could change!), never heard of SANDDE.

French patent? french web hosting? You could change to US(or any other country) host. if they have a judge or something that says that flashsandy.org must go down, they will have to work more if your site is not hosted in france(i think so). If same domain name everyone will find you anyway.
if you must change name, dont drop Sandy! Just make clear that it is Sandy3d.
sandy and sandde is more similar than Sandy3d anyway. i can’t imagine that someone can prononce Sandde the same way as Sandy3d.

if you must change web site name you should get http://www.sandy3d.org, seems available.
with that name, can adobe make you problem? i dont think so.
or something like http://www.Sandy3dengineforflash.org to piss off adobe.
if you change web site name people(well most of them) will find you anyway with google.

if someone in the community make a petition to say that IMAX should change his name not you, stating if they are using IMAX products and if they are willing to boycott that could make them shut up. i think that money has more power than laws in a case like that. i think that warnings should always come before boycott.

even if you think that you think you dont have enough users, i think you could get the whole open-source community behind you.

Someone(again not you) could make some kind of logo saying make a statement related to this case and asked people to put on their website.

david vs goliath? ok you are david and imax is goliath but the david didnt have super mega cell with social media instant messaging system that could make his countless friends gather behind him in minutes…

Yeah please tell us.

I am also in a similar situation at the moment, corporate giants trying to throw their weight around!

Did you try glaring at them? Probably they will surrender their patent to you.

I like how the names aren’t even the same and they try some silliness. Unfortunately, I think they won by using you for some free publicity fort their nonsense.

On the bright side, lulz were had by all!