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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
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In article <1992Sep11.132456.1985@hellgate.utah.edu> hollaar%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Hollaar) writes:
>In Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. General Mills Fun Group (the owner of Parker Bros.),
>684 F.2d 1316, 216 U.S.P.Q. 588, (Ninth Circuit, 1982), the court held that
>"Monopoly" had become generic because it had become associated with a product
>and not the source of that product. (65% of people surveyed wanted a Monopoly
>game because they wanted to play the game with Boardwalk and hotels, while
>32% wanted to play a Parker Bros. game.)
>
>Congress acted almost made changes to the Lanham Act (the trademark law) to
>reverse the holding in the Anti-Monopoly case (Trademark Clarification Act of
>1984, P.L. 98-620). So the Anti-Monopoly decision is now "bad law" and not
>relevant to much of anything.
I don't quite get this last paragraph... is it "Congress acted [and] almost"
or "Congress acted almost [immediately and] made changes"? The `"bad law"`
followup seems to imply the former.
If congress actually ammended the Lanham act, what is the ammended section
that is applicable in this case?
I think that we can safely say that the majority of people in this group fall
into the catagory of wanting to use "the system with pipes and device files"
instead of "a system from AT&T".
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
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