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- From: t_wade@vms.eurokom.ie
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- Subject: Re: The VAX Vacuum
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.154513.12189@vms.eurokom.ie>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 20:36:37 GMT
- References: <9301040153.AA20250@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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- In article <9301040153.AA20250@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, FZC@CU.NIH.GOV ("Paul Robinson, Contractor") writes:
- > The issue of the VAX vacuum vs. VAX computers and the
- > trademark isn't significant except to the extent Digital
- > might have wanted to sell their computer in the same
- > countries as that other company had been selling vacuums.
- >
- > Until last year, in the U.S. a trademark/servicemark is owned
- > ONLY by the first party to USE it in a particular country. This
- > meant that legally, if DEC had used VAX in the U.S. before that
- > other company used the term for its vacuum cleaners in the U.S.,
- > it could prevent that company from selling vacuums under that
- > name in the U.S.
-
- Can't the same name be used for totally different things ? For example,
- if you brought out a new computer and called it a MAC, you would probably
- have Apple after you. If, however, your new product was a hamburger, you
- might get a call from McDonalds.
-
- True story: The makers of the VAX vacuum cleaner brought out a new smaller
- model a couple of years ago. They decided to call it ......
- the MiniVAX (a major marketing opportunity lost there :-( )
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