Re: Trademarks (was: include statement bugs)
- Posted by "Igor Kachan" <kinz at peterlink.ru> Oct 20, 2004
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Hi, Juergen, again! See, please, below you wrote: > Igor Kachan wrote: But there are no my words below Patrick's words at all. So it is something wrong in your post. Do you see now? Do you want me to answer? ---------- > From: Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> > To: EUforum at topica.com > Subject: Trademarks (was: include statement bugs) > Sent: 20 oct 2004 y. 15:35 > > > Igor Kachan wrote: > > > Patrick Barnes wrote: > > <snip> > > >> A NAME is not intellectual property. It never is, if you had any idea > >> about legal mumbo jumbo. > >> A NAME can be a trademark. However, you cannot trademark generic > >> terms. Noone can trademark the name "math.e", because it is a generic > >> term. > > What about chairs, tables and windows? Those are generic terms, aren't > they? AFAIK some people at Redmond think, that they can copyright (or > trademark or whatever the proper expression is) windows. > This is a very tricky field, those people at Redmond probably will not > engage 1 lawyer, but 4 or more when they want to solve any problem in > this regard. Also, there are different laws in different countries. > > <snip> > > Regards, > Juergen ----- Regards, Igor Kachan kinz at peterlink.ru