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From: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: stargate may be tm of datapoint
Message-ID: <1007@ius2.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 1-Jun-86 21:00:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  1 21:00:27 1986
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In article <291@umt.UUCP> mulligan@umt writes:
>In article <931@vortex.UUCP>, lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
>> I'm contacting Datapoint.  There may or may not be a conflict between
>> a product trademark and a service mark/name such as "Project Stargate"
>> or "Stargate Information Service."  However, in any case, I'm pointing
>> out our prior use and the various published places where the name
>> has been used.
>> 
>> --Lauren--
>
>Lauren,
>
>  I believe that the name "Stargate" may have been used a few years ago
>by a video game company for one of their games.  Sorry I don't remember
It is Williams Electronics (out of Chicago, I believe)
StarGate was the successor to the popular Defender game.
They've licensed the game to other companies (Atari?, etc)
but I'm not sure what the status of the trademark is, assuming
they have one.  They may not challenge anyway, if they're not
doing very hot.  The Datapoint problem is probably more serious,
given that both involve communications networks, etc.
-- 
					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

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