Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:56:45 12/04/97
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On December 04, 1997 at 10:15:01, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >On December 04, 1997 at 06:47:12, Amir Ban wrote: >> >>Of course it's copyrightable, that has nothing to do with the name. > >Are you sure you mean "copyright"? > >As far as I know "Windows" and all your other Microsoft examples are >"registered trademarks" which is something completely different ... > >=Ernst= correct. *trademark* is the right term. And there you can trademark any sort of "juxtaposition" of words you want, but you only can claim the unique juxtaposition and not the individual words, as in the examples I mentioned like "wordperfect" and "X-windows" and "visual-anything"...
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