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From: csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Andie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.games.empire
Subject: Re: Empire
Message-ID: <709@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 17:02:52 EST
Article-I.D.: its63b.709
Posted: Sun Nov  1 17:02:52 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 23:01:00 EST
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Reply-To: csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Andie)
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In article <32410@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <14051@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU  writes:
>
>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?

Over here in darkest Britain, there is a company marketing a vacuum cleaner 
called .... VAX ! As far as I know, the copyright/trademark laws cover like
entities .. ie I think you're right.

Andie Ness . Department of Computer Science 
              EDINBURGH University.

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