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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.games.empire
Subject: Re: Empire
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 19:37:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 19:37:51 1987
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Reply-To: cdaf@iucs.UUCP (Charles A. Daffinger)
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In article <1405@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>
>You cannot use the name Empire and attach it to a program that is similar
>to my Empire game. That would be trademark infringement. The same rule
>would apply if you wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS. I think
>you would hear from Microsoft real fast.
>
2 questions:

1)	Are you the author of the original Empire?  If not, then I don't
	think you can TradeMark the name (My copy of the copyright and
	trademark laws are out on loan....)

2)	If you had placed Empire in the public domain at some point 
	previous, (or anybody else had) before you registered the name....
	you *did* register the name as a trademark, didn't you? - this 
	is different from getting a copyright registered.....
	then I doubt that you can get a legitemate trademark.

-charles

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