Author: Chris Carson
Date: 11:23:49 12/03/97
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On December 03, 1997 at 14:01:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I would tend to agree with Bob (just an opinion). Also, IBM has used Jr (IBM PC Jr) before. Best Regards, Chris Carson
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