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From: w8sdz@smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen )
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: docs on PK contempt suit
Summary: No court order existed when PK361 was released
Keywords: arc, pkarc, pkxarc, sea, pkware
Message-ID: <8487@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 13 Sep 88 17:38:01 GMT
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Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen)
Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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John Haugh claims PKWare is in contempt of court for releasing PK361
with the words "archive" in the DOC files.

John, PK361.EXE was released on August 1, 1988, one day BEFORE the court
order was signed by the judge.  How can there be contempt of an order
that had not yet existed?  I downloaded PK361.EXE from Phil's BBS on the
night of August 1, 1988 and immediately transferred it to the SIMTEL20
archives.  All transfers were done with DSZ, which preserves the
original file size and datestamping.

John, the "trademark" on "ARC" is allegedly invalid.  It will most
likely be denied by the Federal trademark office after all the facts are
presented.  "ARC" was in COMMON USE many years before SEA released their
program.  You can't trademark anything that has been in common use.


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Keith Petersen
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