On 27 Feb 97 05:35am, Lawrence Kellie wrote to STEWART ROTHMAN:
 > that they called their, then new, processor chip Pentium, (Penta is
 > six) because the number
 LK> I will say it again.  Numbers *can* be trademarked as part of 
 LK> trademark.
Aside from the fact he doesn't know a pentagram has five sides, not
six, I suspect his opinion's derived from his understanding of Intel's
loss of protection with respect to the *86 series of chips, so that
AMD could market a 286, 386, or 486 in direct competition with Intel.
"Pentium," as applied to a computer chip, would be a strong mark, vs.
"586" being "merely descriptive" if not generic.
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