Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:33:10 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Fergus Cameron" <cameron@argus-systems.com>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! Message-ID: <00f401c18813$f9aaa1b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <46AEB8C1B628D511969200508B6FE42A668822@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu>
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Roderick writes: > the status of .net is that it is pending trademark. > Federal serial number is 78012936 > filed: June 15, 2000 Trademarks cannot be pending; either they exist, or they don't. Only trademark _registrations_ can be pending. The application that you reference appears to be having a bit of trouble; given its very broad claim and the absence of a clear history of prior use, that would not surprise me. That may be why Microsoft does not appear to be asserting trademark status for it currently (it is not on Microsoft's trademark list). Microsoft doesn't even seem to have tried to register Passport, which is probably wise, since a number of other registrations conflict with the one they'd probably wish to use. And here again, MS does not appear to assert trademark status for the word, and does not include it on its trademark list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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