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From: jans@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Re: SEA files against pkarc author
Message-ID: <3578@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 88 17:18:59 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<<SEA is claiming that the names PKARC and PKXARC violate their trademark on 
the name ARC...>>

<What's next--SEA filing against Rahul because ZOO is...>

Latest rumor:  spurred by SEA's arguments, IBM today filed suit against 
ButtonWare, claiming that the names PCFILE, PCTHIS, PCTHAT violate their 
trademark on the name PC.  In a similar action, Sperry has filed suit against 
everyone, claiming the term "computer" can only be used when describing one of 
their Univac series machines...

If it weren't costing me (a consumer of computer, er, ah, digital processing 
equipment) money, it'd be almost entertaining.  ("The next step is to shoot all 
the lawyers.")

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