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: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146647589 references: <828903918snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <4kb1l1$ajm@solutions.solon.com> <4keoed$bur@mordred.gatech.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <4keoed$bur@mordred.gatech.edu> james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch) writes: >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. > >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. A couple of questions: 1. What if I start a company named "Foobar" manufacturing a computer named "Apple"? Am I going to have troubles or not? 2. What if I start a company named "Wednesday Computer" manufacturing a computer named "Wednesday"? Am I going to be protected by the US trademark law or not? Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland