andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel) (08/22/89)
If you want to be completely on the up-and-up, how do you annotate or
describe a font whose name is a trademark (TM) but not a registered
trademark (R)?
One person told me that TM was something you can assert for your own
products, but that there's no way to talk about some other company's
non-registered trademark.
When we ask our lawyers, they all say "that's an interesting problem"
and go off to look into it for six months, and I still don't have an answer...
(It would be nice if someone with real legal knowledge of this issue
could clear the air!)
adTHANKSvance,
Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
"wake now! Discover that you are the song that the morning brings..."
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USnail : 16399 W. Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127-1899 USAhoweird@hpwrce.HP.COM (Howard Stateman) (08/24/89)
andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel)/writes: >If you want to be completely on the up-and-up, how do you annotate or >describe a font whose name is a trademark (TM) but not a registered >trademark (R)? I don't understand what your problem is. IN both the case of the (R) and the (TM), all that is protected is the use of the mark. There is no restriction on your describing the product, or the trademark in a publication, as long as you give credit to the owner of the mark (as in "UNIX is a Registered TM of AT&T"). What specific use of the trademark brought up this question, Andrea? -------------------------------------------------------------------- |Howard Stateman, Hewlett-Packard Response Center, Mountain View, CA | |howeird@hpwrce.HP.COM or hplabs!hpwrce!howeird | | This disclaimer intentionally left blank | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Your public servants serve you right." | | -- Adlai Stevenson | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| |Sysop of the Anatomically Correct BBS (415) 364-3739 | --------------------------------------------------------------------