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From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
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Subject: Re: Machine names and trademark law
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ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) writes:

>Suppose I name a machine "foo.cs.columbia.edu", where "foo" is a
>trademark or a registered trademark, e.g., the name of a video game, a
>brand of consumer electronics, the make of an exotic car, or the name
>of a computer manufacturer. Have I violated trademark law? 

I hope not.  Remember, Zilog trademarked the letter "Z" and Microsoft
trademarked the letters "MS" when placed next to each other.

Thus naming anything "ZOOMS" would be a double trademark infringement.

I'm probably wasting my time posting this, as our news server doesn't seem
to be letting mail out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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