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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: The Ultimate in Greed, or: The Fab Four have lost their look 'n' feel
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Date: 23 Feb 90 15:19:52 GMT
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In article <7779@tank.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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>So, my questions are:
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>1) Can they do something ridiculous like make Apple change its name?
Assuming Apple really made such a stupid agreement and/or gets a judge
like the one who used to be on the H-P case, they could make Apple change its
brand names.  I'm fairly sure that company names cannot be copyrighted in the
U.S, so any such agreement as to the company name would probably be held to
be invalid (you can't have a contract which gives something for nothing).

>
>2) If the answer to one is "yes", what suggestions do you have for Apple's new
>name? :-> 
Beatles, of course....

Disclaimer: I'm definitely not a lawyer, so any and all legal information
above is not only suspect, its probably WRONG.
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