From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/09 Message-ID: <4keoed$bur@mordred.gatech.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146618728 references: <828903918snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <4kb1l1$ajm@solutions.solon.com> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu organization: Georgia Institute of Technology newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote: : In dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: : >Peter Seebach's claims about trademarks are most peculiar, certainly not : >even vaguely correct in the US (where you could never manage to trademark : >Wednesday -- in fact the trademark of Ada was in all likelihood never valid!) : If someone managed to trademark Apple, I see no reason why one couldn't : trademark Wednesday in the US. It's important to note that US trademark law recognizes certain tiers of protection for trademarks, of which trademarking a common word is the weakest form of protected trademark. The strongest trademark is where you invent a name and trademark it, a name that doesn't resemble any word: like Arco or Quisp. The only way you could be conceivably guilty of infringing on Apple's trade- mark (which is 'Apple Computer'), is by using it as the name of a computer company of some sort. If you started a company called 'Apple Consulting', that would be okay. If you started a company called 'Apple Computer Consulting', you'll probably hear from a lawyer.