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- From: mkahn@pima.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <MKAHN.92Jul21105104@pima.sedona.intel.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 17:51:04 GMT
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- In-reply-to: sullivan@granite.ma30.bull.com's message of 20 Jul 92 17:17:24 GMT
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- Tsullivan@granite.ma30.bull.com (Marie J. Sullivan) writes:
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- ] In article <1992Jul20.093703.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
- ] >
- ] >So, at this time, 80586 MIGHT be registered for future use by Intel. (The
- ] >PTO - Patent and Trademark Office - holds such "placeholder" registrations in
- ] >confidence; if you were to use 80585, it would be up to Intel to tell you to
- ] >stop.) It is extremely unlikely that Intel has registered 80686.
- ] >
- ]
- ] I thought the whole issue of Intel using P5 (or some such designation)
- ] as opposed to 80586 was that it was ruled that a number could _not_ be
- ] trademarked, so AMD was allowed to use '386' without restriction...
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- ]
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- Yes, this is the right answer...
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