Re: Eureka trademarked?

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Bright Software)]

In <CCBn62.Az0@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu writes:

> In article <CCBM8t.Gsn@well.sf.ca.us> joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:
> >
> >GS+ Magazine is called GS+. There's also a car that has a designation of
> >GS. And, in Quadrophenia, a great rock opera from The Who, there's a line
> >"I drive a GS scooter".
> 
> Disbrow was indeed threatened by Apple Legal, but I believe he paid a licensing
> fee on the use of "GS".  As far as I know, Apple doesn't care about the use
> of "GS" for non-computer related things, and probably can't under the law.
>
Referring to this reply and Joe's question: no, I did never have the pleasure
with a lawyer from Apple. I received a very (really!) kind note from an
employee who explained the situation to me and said that "there is a potential
problem". They noticed this violation of their trademark when I tried to get a
unique filetype from Apple. First they read "GSymbolix" as "Gee-Symbolix", but
suddenly..hehehe...:) 
I don't think Apple cares about the "GS" anymore. But I wouldn't recommend
Detroit to name their next car "MacIntosh". I'm not a lawyer but once someone
from Switzerland's trademark department told me that you CAN protect names that
are infinitely important to mankind, such as Apple or IBM. 
 
henrik

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