Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:01:45 12/03/97
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On December 03, 1997 at 08:52:13, Amir Ban wrote: >On December 03, 1997 at 08:40:20, Chris Carson wrote: > >>Well I thought I would see if anyone is interested in >>discussing this topic. >> >>1. When is this? >>2. Opinions on who will show >> Deep Blue? Deep Blue JR ? > >Anyone who is planning to show up with a Jr or Junior suffix, prefix, or >whatever, can expect to draw a lot of heat from certain parties. IBM >have been duly informed of this. > >Amir I'm not sure what this means, but "junior" is non-trademarkable and non-copyrightable. It has already been used far too many times on different products. We even participated in a human tournament years ago with a program known as Cray Blitz junior, because the machine we used was far slower than the usual big crays we used, and USCF didn't want a wildly incorrect rating used for initial seeding. You ought to get over the "junior" issue, or else pick a more unusual name. But Junior, baby, thought, etc are simply too generic to expect them to be protected by any legal means. Crafty falls under the same basic umbrella. I chose it because I liked it, but I see the word "crafty" used all the time, even with respect to chess (this was a crafty move by black to attempt to trap the bishop...). To become enlightened on just how tenuous your claim on "junior" is, do a netsearch. You'll be amazed. It's not worth arguing over, nor worth making waves over. Before you can make waves, you have to pick a unique name and trademark it. That is *very* difficult since most words have already been used somewhere, and once they are in common use they can't ever be protected. Junior means "smaller version". We even had a machine known as junior here, it being a smaller version of another machine we had. That's common. As is the word "blitz" in Cray Blitz. Notice "Dark Thought" which sounds like a much more famous program? Genius can't be claimed either. too many of 'em...
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