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Article #8405Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy
From: Brad Templeton
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 05:02
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 05:02
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In article <DOWDING.94Aug14015551@gansett.ai.sri.com>, John Dowding <dowding@ai.sri.com> wrote: >Nope, no generic term here. Us clarinet players must be infringing. You must have missed the earlier messages in this thread where this issue was touched on. > >By the way, I claim the trademark on these hierarchies: One can not simply "claim" a trademark. One has to use it, and one acquires rights to the mark by being the first to truly use it to identify something. As noted, a trademark is an adjective, not a noun, so you can't build a mark unless it is clear what sort of noun the adjective applies to. That's why we can have Apple Computer and Apple Records and Apple Auto Glass and several other Apple XXX companies. -- Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp. The net's #1 electronic newspaper (circulation 65,000) -- info@clarinet.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1052e3,b24e8d9e0112a74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1052e3,public X-Google-Thread: fc7b2,b24e8d9e0112a74 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7b2,public X-Google-Thread: f9437,b24e8d9e0112a74 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9437,public X-Google-Thread: 1157da,b24e8d9e0112a74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1157da,public X-Google-Thread: 1154f5,b24e8d9e0112a74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1154f5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-14 22:37:33 PST Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,ba.news,alt.internet.services,news.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!looking!brad From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp. Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 05:02:52 GMT Message-ID: <CuK8ou.CII@clarinet.com> References: <3265q2$gqc@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> <32fb75$244@foobar.hanse.de> <CuHsvM.DBB@clarinet.com> <DOWDING.94Aug14015551@gansett.ai.sri.com> Lines: 18