Author: Don Dailey
Date: 11:56:30 12/03/97
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On December 03, 1997 at 14:23:49, Chris Carson wrote: >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 I personally would prefer my own orignial name (or as orignial as you can reasonably be) and not try to jump in on some fad thing. I remember when everyone was tacking the designation "pro" or "professional" after their product and I thought it really sounded unimaginative. Stuff like this seems to fire peoples imagination though I do not know why. Maybe I should market a serial version of cilkchess and call it "Cilkchess Jr. professional edition.", for the discriminating chess player! Don
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