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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
Message-ID: <123@splut.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 08:25:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: splut.123
Posted: Fri Sep  4 08:25:36 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 01:51:31 EDT
References: <681@neoucom.UUCP>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 24
Keywords: 2 is a trademark of IBM
Summary: IBM's not the first...

In article <681@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
> [...]  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.

I recall several years ago an article in Lifelines (remember that one?),
written by Troxel Ballou. Seems that Zilog went after Lifelines and its
advertisers, saying that Z-80 is a trademark of Zilog. No problem, right?

They also went after a couple of vendors for calling their Z-80 specific
products Z-something, claiming that the Z was also a distinctive trademark
of Zilog. This was met with general merriment. Ballou signed his article
"Ztroxel Zballou". hehehehe.

I hope Zilog gave up on that silly idea...after all, my callsign could be
suspect...

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