Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Font names
Message-ID: <1988Apr20.084943.1655@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3174@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3219@gryphon.CTS.COM> <673@nunki.usc.edu>, <3331@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 88 08:49:43 GMT

> According to my sister in law, the budding attorney, a trademark
> search is beyond the reach of non-lawers to do, and is expensive
> and tedious. Great.

I suspect the tricky part is deciding whether applying trademark "foo"
to product ABC conflicts with the existing trademark "foo" for product
DEF.  There may also be problems with the lack of an international
registry for such things.  And I believe that only *registered* trademarks
actually have to be registered; a company can still have a right to a
name if it's in active use but not registered.

Although it won't solve that kind of problem, if you just want a straight
lookup in a list, I believe Dialog has a trademark database.

(If you're wondering whether a name is trademarked in the software industry,
by the way, a fast answer is "probably". :-) )
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