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From: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.games.empire
Subject: Re: Empire
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 13:32:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 13:32:34 1987
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In article <4731@iucs.UUCP> cdaf@iucs.UUCP (Charles A. Daffinger) writes:
$1)	Are you the author of the original Empire?
    Yes I am.
$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.
    Empire was never placed in the public domain. It was mistakenly
    distributed by DECUS who THOUGHT it was public domain.
    I am not very familiar with how the trademark laws work.