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From: Teresa Reiko <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
Subject: Re: Trademarks (was: Re: ANSI C and POSIX)
Date: 12 Apr 1996 22:59:51 GMT
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[e-mail] (Norman H. Cohen) wrote:

>Indeed one can trademark a common word.  However, this only provides
>protection against uses of the word in contexts where confusion with the
>products named by the trademark might result.  Thus supermarkets do not
>violate Apple Computer's trademark when they label their wares as
>"apples" or "MacIntoshes".  That is also why McDonalds and Apple can
>both trademark "Mac" (along with the British rainwear manufacturer that
>sued the Beatles for the "Penny Lane" lyric, "The banker never wears a
>Mac in the pouring rain," in an effort to protect their trademark from
>becoming a generic term).

This hasn't got a thing to do with C programming.  Maybe it should be
in a newsgroup dealing with trademarks.  Or maybe one of the *.advocacy
newsgroups.

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 Teresa Reiko    Chief Programmer, Tenbyte Software    [e-mail]
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