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Re: Name of front-end

From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, pkoning at equallogic dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 00:47:45 +0100
Subject: Re: Name of front-end
References: <10312081632.AA11626@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <3FD4AD1A.3070408@gnat.com> <16340.46498.241928.977386@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <3FD509C3.3030708@gnat.com>

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:31, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Umm, I don't think you need a lawyer to tell you that it a name is
> not trademarked, then using it will not be a trademark infringement :-)

Sure, ask the MobiliX folks. MobiliX is not trademarked, Asterix
and Obelix are, since the words are "close enough" German courts
ruled that they were violating the existing trademarks. 

Now you've just expanded the "name is not trademarked" by 
"name is not close enough from existing trademark following existing
rulings in various countries", and you need a lawyer
to do the search. (MobiliX is trying to get the ruling
reversed in various ways, estimated legal cost is around 60 000 USD).

Unfortunate state of affair.

Laurent

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