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Article #29029Re: Empire
From: Walter Bright
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1987 18:32
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1987 18:32
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In article <4731@iucs.UUCP> cdaf@iucs.UUCP (Charles A. Daffinger) writes:
$1) Are you the author of the original Empire?
Yes I am.
$2) If you had placed Empire in the public domain at some point
$ previous, (or anybody else had) before you registered the name....
$ you *did* register the name as a trademark, didn't you? - this
$ is different from getting a copyright registered.....
$ then I doubt that you can get a legitemate trademark.
Empire was never placed in the public domain. It was mistakenly
distributed by DECUS who THOUGHT it was public domain.
I am not very familiar with how the trademark laws work.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pilchuck!dataio!bright From: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.games.empire Subject: Re: Empire Message-ID: <1409@dataio.Data-IO.COM> Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 13:32:34 EST Article-I.D.: dataio.1409 Posted: Mon Nov 2 13:32:34 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 01:57:51 EST References: <2731@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1030@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA Lines: 11