Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:30:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, koshy@india.hp.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cjs@portal.ca Subject: Re: General policy on trademark violations Message-ID: <19980216083042.33061@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199802151123.MAA04134@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 12:23:57PM %2B0100 References: <19980215190616.44412@freebie.lemis.com> <199802151123.MAA04134@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Sun, 15 February 1998 at 12:23:57 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Greg Lehey wrote... >> On Sat, 14 February 1998 at 23:58:19 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>>>>>>> "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au> writes >>>> FreeBSD folks, you are seeing just the tip of the iceberg. Did you know >>>> that *a huge number* words and phrases in the english language have been >>>> trademarked or servicemarked on way or the other in the US? Large companies >>>> in the US spend tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars in trademark searches. >>> >>> Fortunately, you appear not to quite have grasped the way that >>> contemporary trademark law works. In addition to the name matching, >>> the *category* has to match too. >> >> That would be nice. Remember the first edition of CFBSD: >> >> Triton is not a trade mark of Intel Corporation. It is a trade mark >> of some other company which, to the best of my knowledge, has >> nothing to do with computers. Unfortunately, an overly zealous >> German lawyer has taken to suing people who use this name to refer >> to the chipset. Sheesh. >> >> In fact, the name was only similar, and it was trademarked in a >> completely different area. Of course, that's in Germany, and >> trademark law differs a lot from one country to another (in fact, the >> trademark owner was in the Netherlands). > > Triton is a software product, if I'm not mistaken an early product of > Baan Company. The name of the product in question wasn't Triton, just something like it. There was a writeup in c't a while back, but I can't put my hands on it. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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