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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- 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)
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 03:42:32 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
- Message-ID: <829194152snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.828879781@schonberg> <828903918snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <dewar.828912460@schonberg> <4kb1l1$ajm@solutions.solon.com> <dewar.828987795@schonberg> <danpop.829080300@rscernix> <4keoed$bur@mordred.gatech.edu>
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- In article <4keoed$bur@mordred.gatech.edu>
- james@amber.biology.gatech.edu "James McIninch" writes:
-
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Incidentally, Apple records had the `Apple' trademark first, and Apple
- Computer were only allowed to use the name, as long as they didn't diverge
- into sound recording of any sort.
-
- Now that Apple make multimedia machines, Apple records could have a case...
-
- .splitbung
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