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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.games.empire
Subject: Re: Empire
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 02:08:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 02:08:26 1987
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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.

How about "Casey's Empire", referring to a Langston-like multiplayer
game played on a hex grid?

Sean

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