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From: andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,misc.legal
Subject: one of those sticky legal questions about fonts
Message-ID: <2447@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 21 Aug 89 21:15:30 GMT
Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
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If you want to be completely on the up-and-up, how do you annotate or
describe a font whose name is a trademark (TM) but not a registered
trademark (R)?

One person told me that TM was something you can assert for your own
products, but that there's no way to talk about some other company's
non-registered trademark.

When we ask our lawyers, they all say "that's an interesting problem"
and go off to look into it for six months, and I still don't have an answer...

(It would be nice if someone with real legal knowledge of this issue
could clear the air!)

adTHANKSvance,


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
	"wake now!  Discover that you are the song that the morning brings..."
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