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From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
Message-ID: <1425@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 19:40:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1425
Posted: Thu Sep  3 19:40:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:23:58 EDT
References: <681@neoucom.UUCP> <1424@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: 2 is a trademark of IBM
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In article <1424@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <681@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>>I just heard on the news that IBM is suing Orchid and AST for
>>mis-using the term PS/2 (apparently tm IBM) in their advertisements.
>>OK, I'll grant them that.  IBM aslo filed suit against AST for
>>using the suffix "2" in the name of one of their enhancement boards
>>intended for use with the PS/2.  I guess that now that IBM owns the
>>rights to 2, the rest of us will learn to have to make due with the
>>other 9 digits.
>>
>>Bill (wtm@neoucom.UUCP   ...!cbatt!neoucom!wtm)
>
>This could pose a problem for me as I have used lots of 2's in many
>of my programs. Do I have to extract them all and send them to IBM ?
>
>What is the work around ?
>
>One thing I thought of was redefineing HEX as:
>
>0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f g
>
>and calling it sexadecimal, so I tried it and asked sombody here
>at work to give to me in sex and they hit me, and a guy
>across the way looked at me funny.
>
This would more than likely be an infringement on CBS Personal Softwares
new copy protection method.  Their method depends on "gaps" in the
binary image of a program that contain no twos.  This would trigger
a government mandated copy protection device that would prevent
the recording drive from writing.

In the IBM suit, the trademark issue is actually over the "/2". IBM
claims this as a trademark.

Zilog claims the single letter "Z" as a trademark, though.


-- 
Greg Laskin   
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