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From: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: What should be added to C, call it PL/2
Message-ID: <452@ccird1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jun-86 18:17:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: ccird1.452
Posted: Fri Jun  6 18:17:24 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jun-86 06:24:15 EDT
References: <36@mit-prep.ARPA> <1628@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Organization: CCI Rochester Development, Rochester NY
Lines: 27
Keywords: trademark, copyright, PL/I

In article <1628@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
>In article <36@mit-prep.ARPA> x@mit-prep.ARPA (Dean Elsner) writes:
>>Sorry, I don't think you can call it PL/2!
>>IBM was going to call PL/1 "NPL" (New Programming Language?) until
>>National Physical Laboratories told them not to. They then registered
>>names PL/1 ... PL/100 (!). I don't think they reserved PL/0.
>>I don't know what 'registered' means here, but I presume trademarked.
>>This is from memory, and may be wrong.
>>x@prep.ai.mit.edu (Dean Elsner)   Disclaimer: I am not me. Much. Often.
>
>Sounds like an Urban Legend to me.  In the US it is not possible to
>register a trademark until it has actually been used in trade.  Hence
>stories of tobacco companies registering names like Acapulco Gold
>against the possibility of legalized marijuana are, sadly, bogus.

Not quite.  You don't actually have to sell a product using that
name, just announce your intent to sell a product under that mark.

When CCI wanted to trademark their "Power 5/20" series processors,
they also announced to a few selected costomers products including
Power 5/1-99 6/1-99 and 7/1-99.  Needless to say, some of these
products were in "very early stages of developement" :-).

Since these customers were inter-state and international, we were
pretty well covered.

Usual Disclaimers:  I speak for myself, not the company.