From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10515 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2003 23:59:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 10495 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 23:59:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dberlin.org) (69.3.5.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2003 23:59:39 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.7] (account dberlin [192.168.1.7] verified) by dberlin.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.4) with ESMTP-TLS id 5563303; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:59:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3FD509C3.3030708@gnat.com> References: <10312081632.AA11626@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <3FD4AD1A.3070408@gnat.com> <16340.46498.241928.977386@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <3FD509C3.3030708@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v608) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <93C588A4-29DA-11D8-8E2C-000A95DA505C@dberlin.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, pkoning@equallogic.com, Richard Kenner , Andrew Haley From: Daniel Berlin Subject: Re: Name of front-end Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0000 To: Robert Dewar X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00557.txt.bz2 On Dec 8, 2003, at 6:31 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: > >> Robert Dewar writes: >> > If you google on PL/I you will find zillions of references from >> third >> > parties with no hint of a trademark, so I think you can safetly >> talk >> > about GNU PL/1 without worrying! >> Trademark law is complex, I strongly advise against anyone giving >> amateur legal opinions in this area :-) > > 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 :-) Remember, just because it's not a *registered* trademark, doesn't make it not a trademark. You simply have to use it in trade for it to be a trademark. Though of course, registration gives you benefits. In the US, anyway. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/register.htm (The PTO, BTW, has the most worthless website on the planet. They made it look nicer recently, but didn't make any information easier to access. Zen and the art of redesigning government websites, i guess).