Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8166 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:7167 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!wb3ffv!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: the Am386(tm) is cool! Message-ID: <280@raysnec.UUCP> Date: 2 Apr 91 21:35:03 GMT References: <1991Mar11.231609.5370@amd.com> ,<27607@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar24.235005.254@news.iastate.edu> <1991Mar25.050646.8556@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <1991Apr02.023105.7457@disk.uucp> Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch Lines: 14 proberts@disk.uucp (Phil Roberts) writes: >I have before me an Intel advertisement from the January 29 issue of >PC Magazine. To quote from the ad: "486 is a trademark of Intel >Corporation." Also where the number 486 appears in the ad the small TM >trademark symbol follows the number. The TM symbol means only that someone has claimed trademark protection for the mark. It is not registered. In ruling that 386 is a generic reference not subject to trademark, the judge has implied, by extension, that 486 cannot be trademarked either. ----------- uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech