from the corresponding article in german . august 2014 click show for important translation instructions . view a machine translated version of the german article . google s machine translation is a useful starting point for translations but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate rather than simply copy pasting machine translated text into the english wikipedia . do not translate text that appears unreliable or low quality . if possible verify the text with references provided in the foreign language article . after translating translated de urw must be added to the talk page to ensure copyright compliance . for more guidance see wikipedia translation . urw design and development gmbh is a typeface foundry based in hamburg germany . 1 it is the successor of unternehmensberatung rubow weber urw which was founded in 1972 . the urw has become a leading developer of digital font technology designing open source fonts as well as custom typefaces for businesses . 2 urw was involved in a 1995 lawsuit with monotype corporation for cloning its fonts and naming them with a name starting with the same three letters . as typeface shapes themselves can not be copyrighted in the united states the lawsuit centered on trademark infringement . a us court decided that monotype s trademarks were fanciful and did not have descriptive value of the actual products . however it also decided that urw was confusing the public deliberately because the purloining of the first part of a well known trademark and the appending of it to a worthless suffix is a method of trademark poaching long condemned by the courts . the court issued an injunction preventing urw from using its chosen names . 3 contents 1 typefaces 2 references 3 further reading 4 links typefaces edit some of the fonts created by urw include the nimbus family of fonts ghostscript fonts like urw bookman l and urw gothic l references edit pc mag . 1991 . urw gro er bestand an eigenen schriften . macwelt magazine german . 17 december 2008 . retrieved 2 november 2012 . lawrence d. graham 1999 . legal battles that shaped the computer industry . greenwood publishing group . pp. 47 48 . isbn 978 1 56720 178 9 . further reading edit karow peter 1998 . two decades of typographic research at urw a retrospective . electronic publishing artistic imaging and digital typography . 7th international conference on electronic publishing ep 98 held jointly with the 4th international conference on raster imaging and digital typography ridt 98 st. malo france march 30 april 3 1998 proceedings . lecture notes in computer science . 1375 265 280 . doi 10.1007 bfb0053276 . isbn 978 3 540 64298 5 . links edit urw website this german corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title urw % 2b % 2b & oldid 718463669 categories type foundriesletterpress font foundriesgerman company stubshidden categories articles to be expanded from august 2014all articles to be expandedarticles needing translation from german wikipediaall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisportugu sti ng vi t edit links this page was last modified on 3 may 2016 at 17 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view