Re: Trademarking CypherSpace???
Tim wrote:
Seems to me I-Planet can't trademark a word which has been in usage by many of us for several years. What could they do, demand that we stop using a word we in all likelihood coined? Remove our old writings from the Web?
I don't know about trademark law, and about whether "prior use" invalidates an attempted trademark. It seems unrealistic for them to lay claim to a word someone else invented.
The Kodak disposable camera I have in front of me says "Kodak, Fun and Gold are trade marks." and "(c) EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 1994" while I have 361 references to Gold, dated 1611, and it was very likely an old word then. These trademark assertions are daft. -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant@notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/ # ##############################################################
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 10:22:21PM +0100, Antonomasia wrote:
Tim wrote:
Seems to me I-Planet can't trademark a word which has been in usage by many of us for several years. What could they do, demand that we stop using a word we in all likelihood coined? Remove our old writings from the Web?
I don't know about trademark law, and about whether "prior use" invalidates an attempted trademark. It seems unrealistic for them to lay claim to a word someone else invented.
The Kodak disposable camera I have in front of me says
"Kodak, Fun and Gold are trade marks." and "(c) EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 1994"
while I have 361 references to Gold, dated 1611, and it was very likely an old word then. These trademark assertions are daft.
Prior use has nothing to do with trademark protection, unless it is prior use in a similar *business*. It's TRADEmark. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html
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