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From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Macintosh; Apple trademarks etc
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 15:35:00 EDT
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Nf-From: umn-cs!smith    Sep  9 14:35:00 1985


  There isn't any way Apple (or anyone else) can trademark a prefix or
suffix:  they have to trademark a specific word or mark or string or
something.  There's an old (apocryphal, perhaps) story that IBM trademarked
the names PL/2 through PL/99 when they came up with PL/1 or PL/I.
  After all, aren't there already some non Apple applications for the
Mac called MacSomething or other?

Rick.