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From: tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Is Touchtone Still a Protected Trademark
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Date: 9 Jun 89 22:15:51 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 194, message 3 of 9

Here's the promised summary:
No, it is not a protected trade-mark.  The reason is that, at the
time of Judge Green, both AT&T and the local BOCs wanted the rights
to it.  They agreed, instead, to allow the term to pass into the
public domain, so that both could use it.

Thanks to the mailer for losing the names of the respondants about 5
minutes ago.  I suppose that means that it's time to install the new
version...
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