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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Tim Margeson Speaks - to Thom Henderson et. al.
Message-ID: <2044@looking.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 17:46:31 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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It is true that in some cases if a trademark is always spelled ARC, then
"arc" is not the trademark.  In this case, there would be a good argument that
because the PC maps program names from "arc" to "ARC" that "arc" is still
covered by ARC.

It is not true that you can claim a trademark for something to be defined
at a later date.

It is not true that just because a trademark is always spelled ARC that you
can have "arc" as your trademark.  It just could mean that the ARC people
don't have it.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473