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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 
> Terry writes:
> 
> > A trademark does not have to be registered to be a trademark.
> 
> But a company must assert it to be a trademark, and must actively use and
> defend it.  A failure to use and defend a trademark or a failure to call it
> a trademark may allow it to fall into the public domain.
> 
> > You need to read up on trademark law.
> 
> I have; how else would I know these things?

Microsoft _is_ asserting it.  They have filed for registration,
and the artwork I referred you to earlier has the trademark symbol
following ".NET".

For it to be a common law trademark, it requires active use; until
recently, it wasn't deployed, so it could hardly be actively used.

They only need to "defend" it if it's "attacked".

"Failure to call it a trademark"... you mean, like not attempting
formal registration (as they have), and/or not putting the little
symbol after it in the artwork (as they did in the .GIF I gave you
the URL for)?

-- Terry

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