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Subject:Re: Trademark question From:Janice Gelb <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sun, 06 May 2007 13:17:39 +1000
Fred Ridder wrote:
>
>> Stephen Arrants wrote:
>>
>>> Janice Gelb <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com> wrote:
>>>
>>> And yet, somehow they managed to bamboozle the
>>> court into granting them a trademark for "Windows"
>>
>> Kind of like the way Sun Microsystems trademarked "Sun", eh? :-)
>
> The issue with Windows as a trademark is that the word
> "window" and its plural were already "terms of art" in the
> computer industry before Microsoft ever released their
> window-oriented OS.
>
> "Sun" would only be an issue as a trademark if the product
> associated with it were a star or a source of light/heat or
> a giant thurmonuclear furnace, where there is already an
> existing product or service using that name. For computers,
> there's no issue of prior use. [snip]
>
What he said :->
-- Janice
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