From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 15 14:09:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29809 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:09:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29789; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA16107 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:55:10 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA04134; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:23:57 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199802151123.MAA04134@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: General policy on trademark violations In-Reply-To: <19980215190616.44412@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 15, 98 07:06:16 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:23:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, koshy@india.hp.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cjs@portal.ca X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / 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