From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 15 14:02:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28599 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:02:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28586; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:02:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA25494; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:30:42 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA00776; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:30:42 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980216083042.33061@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:30:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Wilko Bulte 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 References: <19980215190616.44412@freebie.lemis.com> <199802151123.MAA04134@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199802151123.MAA04134@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 12:23:57PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" 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