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> ] now if only i had thought about these things and quitly copyrighted
> ] pentium, pentrad, pentagon, pentra, etc. last year
> ]
> 
> You can't copyright without a product. You would have to have 
> processors called "pentrad etc.".
> 
I don't think this is true. I remember Borland copyrighting the names
Turbo-Assembler, Turbo-C, Turbo-Modula, and even Turbo-Ada (I think)
long before they came out with these products. Also I think you can
copyright just about every word you want to (e.g. "rabbit" as in 
Volkswagen's Rabbit), even your own name (e.g. Calvin Klein, Dior, 
Chanel) or some acronym you came up with (e.g. USX). Maybe copyrighting 
isn't exactly the right word here, but there is some sort of legal
protection for registered product names (trademarks?). Maybe some
legal expert could comment on this.

> BTW, two different products can use the same (copyrighted) name
> as long as there is no chance of confusion. 

Yup! Example: In Germany Opel (the German subsidiary of GM) sells a car 
named Vectra, while HP sells their Vectra PCs. No chance of confusion!

Norbert
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