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- From: jcaesar@loop.com (jcaesar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Voyager?
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 07:31:20 GMT
- Organization: The Loop
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- >>>developing a web browser called "Voyager" as well... if so, surely AT are
- >>>walking into breach of copyright/trademark suits?
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- Not unless there's a computer program that does the same thing with the same
- name... Or unless they use a picture from Star Trek (highly unlikely).
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- Voyager is a common word in the english dictionary, so in and of itself can
- not be trademarked... This was the problem Parker Bros. had with Monopoly
- when they tried to sue the man who invented Anti-Monopoly. Since "monopoly"
- is a dictionary word/term, they court said they couldn't sue.
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