NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/misc/13136

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From: [e-mail] (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: $800.00!!! For a Cookie?
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:36:30 PDT
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>(from Computer World July 6, 1992)
>
>"Only a year after Apple shelled out $26.5 million to settle a suit brought
>by The Beatles over the name "Apple", the company may be facing another
>fight. This years offender: Newton. Those in the industry may remember it
>as the moniker of an upcoming handheld personal computer from Apple,
>but the rest of the world knows it as a fig cookie made by Nabisco Foods
>Group. Nabisco has held the "Newton" trademark for 101 years... and has
>been known to be very protective of its rights."

Of course you realize for Nabisco to win they must prove that the possibility
of consumer confusion exists.  Which means someone has to walk into a store
to buy a $2.95 bag of fig-filled cookies and through confusing product naming
leave the store with an $800.00 Personal Digital Assistant.  When did Apple
sign a reseller agreement with Safeway Food Stores?

(Of course for those of us in the Silicon Valley could walk into Fry's
Electronics to buy an $800.00 Personal Digital Assistant and end up
with a $2.95 bag of fig-filled cookies!)

Don DeCosta           |The nice thing about sanity is|  VM/Nomad2
[e-mail]   |you can lose it more than once|  Amiga/Imagine