On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:41:52PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> The funny thing is its only "the big companies" that seem concerned about
> this ... and even then, there are big companies that don't have an issue
> with using the name: SRA and Fujitsu being two that come to mind ...
> *shrug*
Well, the examples you gave are both companies with head offices in
Japan. Trademarks in the US are a Big Deal, because of the way
trademarks need to be defended there (there's a great deal of
jurisprudence around this. Hint: there's a reason you can still buy
Bayer(tm) Aspirin(tm) in Canada, and yet you can't in the US). So
US-based companies get very hinkey about trademarks, especially when
they're doing things in an area where they're subject to other PR
issues,
A
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