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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM Date: 1 Jan 1995 07:52:45 GMT Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3e5n0d$nf7@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <9412261906273@infoplus.uu.holonet.net> <3dqhnp$5do@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein3.u.washington.edu Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >Finally, InfoPlus or anyone else considering a FreeBSD CDROM should >know that the title "The FreeBSD CDROM" is a trademark of Walnut Creek >CDROM, a trademark the project team is more than willing to endorse given On the other hand, if it really got down to a fight, I bet Walnut Creek would [this is not legal advice] not be able to win a trademark battle over "The FreeBSD CDROM". With a name that is so descriptive of the product, at the very least they'd have a very uphill fight. I'm kind of surprised that they could even get it past the PTO (or is it an unregistered trademark?). --Tim Smith