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  From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:16:24 +0930 (CST)

Re: Adobe attack on Open-source

Are you allowed to trademark common words?
(eg "Word", "Illustrator", "Commander", "Office")


I can udnerstand that you're able to trademark "Adobe Illustrator", but
thats obviously significantly different from "KDE Illustrator".
For this reason companies need to have brand awareness.

As a precedent, there are already several "office" suites around, I think?

Unless someone starts misrepresenting themselves as one of the other
trademarked entities, I don't see a problem with it.

Toby &tm;



On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, David Newall wrote:

> ilox <ilox@telstra.com> wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20417.html
>
> Adobe don't sound unreasonable to me.  If I had devised, created and
> succesfully marketed WidgetWare, and then someone ripped off my idea and
> called it KWidgetWare, I'd be expecting them to at least change the name.
>
>

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