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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Is ARC a valid trademark?
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Date: 30 Sep 88 19:58:50 GMT
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In article <40404@linus.UUCP> rzahavi@gateway.mitre.org (Ron Zahavi) writes:
}In article <1682@qiclab.UUCP> troeger@ttidca.TTI.COM (Jeff Troeger) writes:
}
}>> Is it possible for two companies to hold trademarks on the same name if 
}>> the product is markedly different?
}
}
}I don't believe so, since the gun company just sued GM over the use of the
}name 'Barreta' SP? . . .
}I don't know, however, how this argument relates to actual words.  
}I would be interested to find out what the trademark laws
}say about such words as 'Apple' or even 'Arc'.  Apple is a fruit and Arc
}is used in math.  Do companies have (OR SHOULD HAVE) the right to 
}trademark these words.

Note that when the Apple Macintosh came out, its manuals had the
following notices:

  Macintosh is a trademark of McIntosh Laboratories, Inc. and is being
  used with express permission of its owner.

  Apple, the Apple logo, ..., are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.

Other companies' documents always referred to Macintosh as a trademark
*licensed to* Apple Compter, Inc.

Apple clearly had to come to some arrangement with the manufacturer of
high fidelity equipment before they could use "Macintosh" as the name
of their new computer.
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