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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Letter to Commodore
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.163101.6980@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 16:31:01 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:

>And Sun Microsystems was "asked" to cease using the trademarked "Yellow Pages"
>and is now using something that is a trademark of my company.  Same for HP's
>use of "VUE" (which is also a trademark of my company).

Good grief, can anybody come up with a two, three, or four letter acronym
that isn't trademarked by somebody, somewhere?  I think it's time for copyright
law reform; no more trademarking of abbrevaitions, just of the original titles
and trademarks themselves.  Tradmarking three letter abbreviations is just as
bad as that guy who tried to copyright every 8x8 bit pattern.

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu