Re: Eureka trademarked?

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <CCC27M.1K5@bernina.ethz.ch> GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Bright
Software) writes:

>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...:) 

Heeheehee.

>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. 

The funny thing to remember is that Apple doesn't own the name "Macintosh";
a small stereo company in Seattle or someplace like that does.  You'll notice
this on Apple's stuff in how they claim the name :)



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