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From: sam@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Sam Baxter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 16:36:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 16:36:06 1987
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in article <1098@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) says:
>In article <2342@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes:
>>                                                   Computer Land sued
>>Business Land because of the "Land" in the name.
> 
> Actually it's a bit ironical, because Computerland had a predecessor
> called Computer Shack, and it had to change its name because Radio
> Shack sued it successfully.  

If my memory serves me correctly, Computer Shack not only copied the
"Shack" but they also copied the *style* of the Radio Shack logo.  I
believe that strongly reinforced Tandy's case (and was cause for the
final decision).

I'm not a lawyer (just a humble programmer :-), but it's my understanding
that registered trademarks are not simply on words, but on the way which
words are printed.  Yes?  No?

I must agree that claiming that "/2" cannot be used by anybody
in the computer industry but IBM is ludicrous at best.  (Quick!
Somebody find another giant company that once-upon-a-time named
a product *Something*/2!  Then have THEM sue IBM!)

Another thought.  I wonder about \2 ...

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