Trademarking CypherSpace???

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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.

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