🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <256@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.UUCP (Ali Ozer) writes:
>BTW, "Juggler" is the name of the ray-traced, 4096-color
>character that juggles three transparent spheres on the Amiga.
> ...  I wonder if Eric Graham (the creator of the Juggler)
>has a copyright on that name? I wonder if Apple can be sued? Hmm...  8-)

Probably not.  It would have to be a trademark, not a copyright (you
can't copyright a word, but you can copyright a particular rendition
of it, if it's original enough).  A trademark can only be violated by
something that is "close enough" to the original for confusion.  Thus,
if I trademark my "fooflish" running shoes, and you come out with a
"fooflish" stereo system, there is probably no trademark violation.
Of course, if you have a paranoid legal department...

Besides, Apple has not announced a *product* called Juggler - who
knows what it will be named when it actually comes out.



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