RE: "news"

In a former life (before I started in IT), I worked at a patent & 
trademark agent's office.

The same TM/SM can be registered for any product or service you choose, as 
long as it doesn't conflict with an existing one for the same or similar 
product/service.

So if you made a gizmoid for use by a transportation company, you still 
might have problems registering "Brown" for it.

<I think I hear David coming to kick me out>

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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It's not so much that UPS "owns" the sm/tm to "Brown", it's a contextual
thing in terms of how they use it for business.

Ie, in this case, you can't use Brown in the context of a transportation
company, but if I were to call some new gizmoid that I just made "Brown"
and market it thusly, I could tm/sm that contextual useage.  It's all in
how it's used in business...so much for my knowledge of IP law... :)

Don in DC




>
> Did you know that UPS owns "brown".
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> Doug Hart
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
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> Just a nit, but "names" are registered for trademark, rather copyright
> protection. I wonder if www.uspto.gov would have registry entries for
> System I6 - System I9?
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> Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  I would like to see 
the
> complete list copyright protected names IBM currently owns. I assume 
with
> a
> little looking on a .gov web site, that could be found.
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