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- From: james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 22:30:37 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.828879781@schonberg> <828903918snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <dewar.828912460@schonberg> <4kb1l1$ajm@solutions.solon.com> <dewar.828987795@schonberg> <danpop.829080300@rscernix>
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- Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
- : In <dewar.828987795@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
-
- : >Peter Seebach's claims about trademarks are most peculiar, certainly not
- : >even vaguely correct in the US (where you could never manage to trademark
- : >Wednesday -- in fact the trademark of Ada was in all likelihood never valid!)
-
- : If someone managed to trademark Apple, I see no reason why one couldn't
- : trademark Wednesday in the US.
-
- It's important to note that US trademark law recognizes certain tiers of
- protection for trademarks, of which trademarking a common word is the weakest
- form of protected trademark. The strongest trademark is where you invent a
- name and trademark it, a name that doesn't resemble any word: like Arco or
- Quisp.
-
- The only way you could be conceivably guilty of infringing on Apple's trade-
- mark (which is 'Apple Computer'), is by using it as the name of a computer
- company of some sort. If you started a company called 'Apple Consulting', that
- would be okay. If you started a company called 'Apple Computer Consulting',
- you'll probably hear from a lawyer.
-