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Re: Mostly Off Topic - Commodore is Back 'n Bad

Subject: Re: Mostly Off Topic - Commodore is Back 'n Bad
From: "M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:12:49 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Matthew Russotto <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote in message
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> The trademark doesn't have the kind of power they're trying to claim
> it does.  There's broad fair use for trademarks, in particular
> nominative fair use, which is using the trademark to refer to the
> trademarked item.

There's also a strong argument that the trademark was abandoned many years
ago when they stopped producing Commodore computers.

- Mike

References:
- Mostly Off Topic - Commodore is Back 'n Bad
  - From: "Thomas McLaren" <thomasnews@ameritech.net>
- Re: Mostly Off Topic - Commodore is Back 'n Bad
  - From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)

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