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Subject: Re: stargate may be tm of datapoint
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Date: Sat, 24-May-86 09:05:00 EDT
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>< Datapoint has announced a product it calls Stargate. It provides a gateway

>since we've been using it for at least a year and a half now. :-)

Does  anyone  remember  PC-NET?   Orchid Technology  swiped the name.
There  was  a  lot  of  discussion  of  this,  with  the some lawyers
participating.   The consensus  was that  the PC-NET  group had prior
claim, but if they failed to challenge Orchid on it  for long enough,
Orchid  would  be  able to  hold on  to it.   It  seems any published
article that substantiates the claim to the name  is sufficient proof
of prior claim, but to hold on to a  name, it  must be  defended.  If
nobody does anything  for about  6 months,  you might  as well rename
stargate, because by then Datapoint will be able to  sue the stargate
project and win.

Disclaimer - I'm not a lawyer, and  the PCnet  thing was  a couple of
years ago, so don't take any of this as gospel.   I  do think someone
should check it out.  

Terry Poot
Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers
(214)739-4741
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