Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:23:57 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) 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: <199802151123.MAA04134@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19980215190616.44412@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 15, 98 07:06:16 pm"
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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. _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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