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Article #8404Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy
From: Joe Buck
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 22:52
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 22:52
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dowding@ai.sri.com (John Dowding) writes:
> Brad> And thus there is a much stronger trademark case for us. --
>
>Nope, no generic term here. Us clarinet players must be infringing.
Wrong, John. You can't trademark nouns, only adjectives. Brad's company
has trademarked "Clarinet" and "clari" as it applies to online services
only.
Oh and by the way:
>net
You must be a newbie ("new" as in 7 years or fewer on the net): "net" was
the first (and at the time, the only) non-local hierarchy.
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-- Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
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