[ox-en] Patents and Copyright, but what about Trademarks?
- From: Russell McOrmond <russell flora.ca>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 19:45:17 -0500 (EST)
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.
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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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