> On 27 Feb 97 05:35am, Lawrence Kellie wrote to STEWART ROTHMAN:
 >  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.
If Intel wanted to trademark the numbers *alone*, it probably couldn't be 
done.  If they, however, wanted to trademark "Intel 286" it probably could be 
done with the "286" disclaimed.  IOW, they could not litigate against AMD for 
using "AMD 286."
However, this has definitively moved beyond the subject of this echo, and 
even with his challenge to me to respond, I will deal with this only because 
of another tirade from him.
Lawrence
... Bach is like a jetstream -if you can get on it, you soar!
--- FMail 1.0g
---------------