[87792] in Cypherpunks
Re: Trademarking CypherSpace???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonomasia)
Mon Oct 6 20:55:53 1997
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:22:21 +0100
From: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com
Reply-To: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
Tim wrote:
> Seems to me I-Planet can't trademark a word which has been in usage by many
> of us for several years. What could they do, demand that we stop using a
> word we in all likelihood coined? Remove our old writings from the Web?
> I don't know about trademark law, and about whether "prior use" invalidates
> an attempted trademark. It seems unrealistic for them to lay claim to a
> word someone else invented.
The Kodak disposable camera I have in front of me says
"Kodak, Fun and Gold are trade marks."
and
"(c) EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 1994"
while I have 361 references to Gold, dated 1611, and it was
very likely an old word then. These trademark assertions are daft.
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