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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Letter to Commodore
Message-ID: <1350@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 91 07:30:10 GMT
References: <177458@netw23.uucp> <22335@cbmvax.commodore.com> <3028@public.BTR.COM> <1991Jun12.163101.6980@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jun12.163101.6980@nntp-server.caltech.edu> rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) writes:
>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.

Good idea. It was really bad when Philips back then forced Commodore to
drop the name PET (at least here in Europw, I think).

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk