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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] pcvt 2.00 - VT220 console driver: Name change?
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Keywords: 386BSD console driver VT220 namechange
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 22:50:12 GMT
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In article <61950@aurs01.UUCP> davis@aurw17.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Alan Davis) writes:
>In article <1628@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes:
>>Just three short notes for the VT220 driver posted to alt.sources some
>>days ago:
>>
>...
>>2) I have received mail from Mark C. DiVecchio (markd@silogic.uucp). He writes:
>>
>> "I have been using the name PC-VT for a program which I have had
>> out as shareware since 1984. The name is copyrighted."
>>
>> Sorry, we were not aware of this program, and we will change the name
>> of the driver with the next release.
>
>Why would the name of a driver subsystem require a name change because
>a program that runs under a completely different os has a similar name?
Not to be a dork, but I also wondered about this.. and whether or not
the *trademark* (I'm sure this was what was meant) on "PC-VT" would
apply to the driver "pcvt"... the strings are different enough that
there shouldn't be a problem anyway.
Just curious, but was the request the result of an actual case of confusion,
or only the potential for confusion? If the latter, I think the author
doesn't have to worry about dilution of his trademark, since the markets
for a DOS shareware comm package and a UNIX console device driver are
unlikely to intersect.
Boyd and others at DEC... isn't "VT" a trademark of DEC?
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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