Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:31:37 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 20:14:57, KarinsDad wrote: >On October 19, 1999 at 19:10:36, James B. Shearer wrote: > >[snip] >> >> This has nothing to do with copyright. It is a trademark question. >>For what it's worth I don't believe that under US law "Deep Blue Junior" would >>infringe on any trademark rights Ban may have on the word "Junior". Was Junior >>even for sale when "Deep Blue Junior" was coined? >> James B. Shearer > >You are correct. I am terrible at legalisms (libel vs. slander, copyright vs. >trademark, etc.). That's probably why my sister became a DA, in order to one up >me on legalisms. ;) > >Well, both Junior and Deep Blue Jr. have been around for quite a while. Junior >won the microcomputer championship in 1997. Deep Blue Jr. started touring in >1996 I think, but I cannot find any references to it before 1997. > >So, I guess someone who knows the history of these two programs better than I >should speak up. > >KarinsDad :) If this were 'patent' issue, IBM had a trademark for "PC Junior" well before there was a junior chess program. We had a couple of those in the department a _long_ while ago, back in the days of the PS2 and so forth.
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