tp@ndm20 (05/24/86)
>< Datapoint has announced a product it calls Stargate. It provides a gateway >since we've been using it for at least a year and a half now. :-) Does anyone remember PC-NET? Orchid Technology swiped the name. There was a lot of discussion of this, with the some lawyers participating. The consensus was that the PC-NET group had prior claim, but if they failed to challenge Orchid on it for long enough, Orchid would be able to hold on to it. It seems any published article that substantiates the claim to the name is sufficient proof of prior claim, but to hold on to a name, it must be defended. If nobody does anything for about 6 months, you might as well rename stargate, because by then Datapoint will be able to sue the stargate project and win. Disclaimer - I'm not a lawyer, and the PCnet thing was a couple of years ago, so don't take any of this as gospel. I do think someone should check it out. Terry Poot Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers (214)739-4741 Usenet: {seismo!c1east | cbosgd!sun | ihnp4}!convex!infoswx!ndm20!tp CSNET: ndm20!tp@smu ARPA: ndm20!tp%smu@csnet-relay.ARPA
lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (05/27/86)
I'm contacting Datapoint. There may or may not be a conflict between a product trademark and a service mark/name such as "Project Stargate" or "Stargate Information Service." However, in any case, I'm pointing out our prior use and the various published places where the name has been used. --Lauren--
paulg@hammer.UUCP (05/29/86)
> > >< Datapoint has announced a product it calls Stargate. It provides a gateway > > >since we've been using it for at least a year and a half now. :-) > > Does anyone remember PC-NET? Orchid Technology swiped the name. > This same type of thing happened with "Star Wars". Lucas also waited too long. Paul J. Gilliam {decvax,ucbvax,...}!tektronix!tekecs!paulg uucp tekecs!paulg@tektronix csnet address tekecs!paulg.tektronix@csnet-relay arpanet
mulligan@umt.UUCP (Scott Mulligan) (06/01/86)
In article <931@vortex.UUCP>, lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes: > I'm contacting Datapoint. There may or may not be a conflict between > a product trademark and a service mark/name such as "Project Stargate" > or "Stargate Information Service." However, in any case, I'm pointing > out our prior use and the various published places where the name > has been used. > > --Lauren-- Lauren, I believe that the name "Stargate" may have been used a few years ago by a video game company for one of their games. Sorry I don't remember which company produced "Stargate" but if you wish to followup on this the folks that read net.games might be able to help you. Scott Mulligan Scott Mulligan University of Montana - Computer Center Missoula, Montana (406) 243-5455 {ucbvax,lll-crg}!ucdavis!umt!mulligan
ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (06/02/86)
In article <291@umt.UUCP> mulligan@umt writes: >In article <931@vortex.UUCP>, lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes: >> I'm contacting Datapoint. There may or may not be a conflict between >> a product trademark and a service mark/name such as "Project Stargate" >> or "Stargate Information Service." However, in any case, I'm pointing >> out our prior use and the various published places where the name >> has been used. >> >> --Lauren-- > >Lauren, > > I believe that the name "Stargate" may have been used a few years ago >by a video game company for one of their games. Sorry I don't remember It is Williams Electronics (out of Chicago, I believe) StarGate was the successor to the popular Defender game. They've licensed the game to other companies (Atari?, etc) but I'm not sure what the status of the trademark is, assuming they have one. They may not challenge anyway, if they're not doing very hot. The Datapoint problem is probably more serious, given that both involve communications networks, etc. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@c.cs.cmu.edu Phone: (412)CMU-BUGS