Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:52:24 -0500 | Subject | Re: Need to pay to use the word "Linux" in commercial products/services! | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > Trademarks are specific to a specific area. My favorite example was > the British advertisements for vacuum cleaners, "Nothing sucks like a > Vax" back when I was hacking BSD 4.3 systems on a Digital Vax/750. Of > course there can be problems when companies expand beyond their > original areas of their trademark registration --- hence the conflict > between Apple Computers, Inc., and Apple Corps (a holding company > which owned Apple Records and the copyrights to Beatle's music) when > Apple started expanding into their iPod and iTunes store business.
Or when they added speakers to even allow any music to be played.
-- Len Sorensen
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