Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!del
From: del@Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Phil Katz (PKARC author) sued by SEA (ARC author)
Keywords: katz,sea,pkarc,pkxarc,arc,suit
Message-ID: <911@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 88 23:30:54 GMT
References: <8084@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1755@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: del@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <1755@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>
>On the other hand, it's obvious that PKARC misuses SEA's ARC trademark,
>and they should be required to make that right.  But let the judge
>decide.
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
>		"USENET -- the world's least important network."


How do you figure? Just because it includes the three letters "ARC"? Does
that mean that SEA now owns the copyright on the word ARChive? Where do you
think "ARC" came from?

Next you'll be telling us that Disneyland should sue Computerland and
Computerland should sue Businessland (which incidentally happened, and the
judge laughed Computerland out of court).

-- 
del (Erik Lindberg) 
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