Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:42:38 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>, Fergus Cameron <cameron@argus-systems.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! Message-ID: <3C2028CE.93B730A8@mindspring.com> References: <46AEB8C1B628D511969200508B6FE42A668822@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu> <3C1FC353.7D81C2CA@mindspring.com> <00f901c18815$596fbb70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C1FF6A6.B7167372@mindspring.com> <013001c18844$50a922e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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