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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Ashton-Tate as a trademark?
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 12:03:55 EST
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The other day while browsing in a magazine, I read in an advertisement
placed by Ashton-Tate that
	"Ashton-Tate is a trademark of Ashton-Tate. . ."

Now I had always been taught that the law didn't allow you to trademark
proper names.  So, for you legal beagles:

	Does the law allow to trademark hyphenated proper names?

	Would the law allow Horton-Summers to be trademarked,
	but not Summers-Horton?
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Ashton-Tate is an Ashton-Tate trademark (or so they claim).
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