Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!mejac!orchard.la.locus.com!fafnir.la.locus.com!fafnir.la.locus.com!cjkuo From: cjkuo@locus.com (Chengi Jimmy Kuo) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Null terminator patent disclosure Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 00:39:16 GMT References: <1991Apr1.052315.16971@contact.uucp> Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California Lines: 11 Please be advised to look in your mailbox for a letter regarding trademark infringement. It was deemed that your Null terminator concept resembles too closely to the registered trademark of NULL(tm). "Null" holds a 29/32 bit resemblance to "NULL" on many machines but especially yours. * NULL is a trademark of Mattel Inc. (From the files of "Truth is stranger than fiction.") -- cjkuo@locus.com "The correct answer to an either/or question is both!"