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In article <1cjb17INNav5@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, S_JUFFA@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Norbert Juffa) writes:
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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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|> Norbert Juffa     email: S_JUFFA@IRAVCL.IRA.UKA.DE          Live and let live!
|> 

There are even people who trademark artificial names without any
concrete products just in order to sell those trademarked names to
manufacturers. 

In the case of Opel, I believe they trademarked VECTRA only in Europe. It's 
a matter of costs.

As far as Opel is concerned: I think Opel was founded before 1900. Was GM?
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