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- From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Trademarks (was Re: ...film at 11...)
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:03:31 GMT
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- Re "Olympic committee has trademarked the 5 rings": There is an
- "Olympic Restaurant" in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., just off
- Wisconsin Ave., which has a 4-ring symbol on its marquee. It has
- been very obviously altered from an original 5-ring symbol. I
- assume some Olympic Committee official passed by it one day and
- threatened them with fire, brimstone, and legal action.
-
- Re "trademarks are context sensitive": Must be true, because SAS
- airline coexists peacefully with SAS Inst. (the software company),
- which uses "SAS" as a registered trademark.
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- Re trademarks in general: anybody can CLAIM a trademark, just by
- putting "tm" after the alleged trademark. The Scudder financial
- institution claims a "tm" on the phrase "pure no-load" for its
- mutual funds. But many other financial institutions, as well as
- journalists, use this phrase with respect to other specific funds
- (and generically). I doubt that an attempt by Scudder to enforce
- its alleged "tm" would succeed. If you register your trademark with
- the U.S. Patent Office you can put the "(R)" after your trademark.
- Competitors can still challenge it, but registration shifts the
- burden of proof of primacy, ownership, etc., from the trademark-
- claimer to the trademark-challenger.
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- Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
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