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In article <32fdsi$nqg@crl2.crl.com>, David A. Kaye <dk@crl.com> wrote:
>Brad Templeton (brad@clarinet.com) wrote:
>Nawwww...a trademark must be a *unique* mark.  The word "market" in 
>regard to the Internet is not unique since there are lots of newsgroups 
>where people market things.  A clear and obvious use for the Internet is 
>in marketing things using formats such as a buy/sell/swap newsgroups.
>
>Your mark, "Clarinet", on the other hand is a unique word which is not
>obvious.  By the same token, Microsoft can trademark the name "Windows"
>since the name is not obvious for computer uses (or wasn't obvious at the
>time they began using the mark), but they can't trademark the name "Word"
>for their word processing program, since "word" is an obvious reference to
>word processing. 

You are correct that Market is not nearly as trademarkable a word when it
comes to naming newsgroups.

You'll probably get a lot a mail about the name Windows, which microsoft
does not hold as a trademark to their regret.   Lots of windowing systems
use the term windows to refer to what they did before MS windows.
Now "MS Windows" *is* a Microsoft trademark.
-- 
Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.
The net's #1 electronic newspaper (circulation 65,000) -- info@clarinet.com