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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Re: SEA files against pkarc author
Message-ID: <115@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 11:55:14 GMT
References: <3578@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <3578@tekgvs.TEK.COM> jans@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) writes:
+<<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.") 

Careful - you may be abusing DEC's trademark :-) ...
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