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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Empire
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 16:23:41 EST
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In article <14051@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU  writes:
>In article <1401@dataio.Data-IO.COM> (Walter Bright) writes:
>) Be careful to rewrite it from scratch, also don't use the name Empire.
>You cannot forbid anyone to use the name "Empire" for any program.
>			Matt Crawford

Sure you can, the same way GM keeps you from building a car and calling
it a Cadillac. It's called Trademark law. Great stuff, now they probably
couldn't prevent you from using the name Empire to describe a batch of
cookies but there is much chance you would get them confused is there?



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