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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Teresa Reiko Subject: Re: Trademarks (was: Re: ANSI C and POSIX) Date: 1996/04/12 Message-ID: <4kmn97$jc0@texas.nwlink.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 147210896 references: <828903918snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <4kb1l1$ajm@solutions.solon.com> <4kgj45$q8t@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Northwest Link mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu x-mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 16bit) Date: 1996-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) wrote: >Indeed one can trademark a common word. However, this only provides >protection against uses of the word in contexts where confusion with the >products named by the trademark might result. Thus supermarkets do not >violate Apple Computer's trademark when they label their wares as >"apples" or "MacIntoshes". That is also why McDonalds and Apple can >both trademark "Mac" (along with the British rainwear manufacturer that >sued the Beatles for the "Penny Lane" lyric, "The banker never wears a >Mac in the pouring rain," in an effort to protect their trademark from >becoming a generic term). This hasn't got a thing to do with C programming. Maybe it should be in a newsgroup dealing with trademarks. Or maybe one of the *.advocacy newsgroups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teresa Reiko Chief Programmer, Tenbyte Software tjr19@nwlink.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------