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Re: the Am386(tm) is cool!

#8740
From: Ray Shwake
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 21:35
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proberts@disk.uucp (Phil Roberts) writes:

>I have before me an Intel advertisement from the January 29 issue of 
>PC Magazine.  To quote from the ad: "486 is a trademark of Intel
>Corporation."  Also where the number 486 appears in the ad the small TM
>trademark symbol follows the number.

	The TM symbol means only that someone has claimed trademark 
protection for the mark. It is not registered. In ruling that 386 is a
generic reference not subject to trademark, the judge has implied, by
extension, that 486 cannot be trademarked either. 

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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: the Am386(tm) is cool!
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Date: 2 Apr 91 21:35:03 GMT
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