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A.Grant@ucs.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:

>In article <19921102.005@erik.naggum.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
>>I feel compelled to rectify this:
>>
>>Second, what you probably confuse this issue with, is Sun Microsystems,
>>Inc, and their "yellow pages" (YP) distributed database which threatened
>>the trademark belonging to _British_ Telecom, the _U.K._ phone company.
>>It seems that Bwitish trademark law is such that they have a flat
>>namespace, which enabled/forced BT to sue SMI.  SMI was forced to name
>>it "NIS" as a result of this suit.

>I feel compelled to rectify this:
> If BT hadn't stomped on Sun, some other PTT would have.

Funny, I would have felt a bit more comfortable if it had been a PTT
(or TT) that had come up with the name "Yellow Pages" in the first place.
Given that they didn't, the whole thing leaves a bad taste in one's mouth.

				Peter Desnoyers
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