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[ox-en] Patents and Copyright, but what about Trademarks?




On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Graham Seaman wrote:

Is that a naive reaction? I hadn't thought about the topic before, and it 
was just my immediate response.

  Here are some ideas to add to your thinking.  Where it is just a well
defined company, product or services name, then there aren't many
problems. Note I only said 'many' as there still are pretty serious
problems such as http://www.rtmark.com/etoy.html .

  Trademarks have gotten out of control as much as patents and copyrights
have where a good thing taken too far becomes a bad thing.


Did you know that Network Associates trademarks include the following:

BOMB SHELTER
BUILDING A WORLD OF TRUST  (Obviously not including McAfee given we can't
                            trust them!)
CERTIFIED NETWORK EXPERT 
CLEAN-UP, 
CLEANUP WIZARD
CLOAKING
Guard Dog
HelpDesk
More Power To You
Net Tools
Network Uptime!
Nuts & Bolts
Oil Change
Stalker  (The courts who consider the act of being a stalker a crime are
          in trademark violation?)
Total Network Security
Total Network Visibility
Total Service Desk
Who's Watching Your Network
Your E-Business Defender  (Sound more like the lawyer that will protect
          you from Network Associates!)

http://www.flora.org/flora/server/comnet-www/1847

  Network Associates can go ahead and sue me for using their trademarks.  
Lock me in a BOMB SHELTER, with a Guard Dog outside. All I can say is
"More Power To You" as I will not CLEAN-UP my act.  They do have a very
weird way of using law toward BUILDING A WORLD OF TRUST ;-)


  Do I want to abolish any of Patents, Copyright or Trademarks?  No, but I
believe that all these very different areas of law are in serious need of
reform and a restoration to modernized first principles.

---
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
 Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
 electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than 
 politicians should be bought.  -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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