On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:26:13PM +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Still the nice thing about using old, old names like the ones I proposed > > is that you can be almost positive no one has a leg to stand on in any > > claim to "own" the name. > > An old name can still be a current trademark. Hermes is an old name > and a trademark ... probably lots of different trademarks.
Yes, but it's harder to get trademark protection for a word you didn't make up. -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially Debian GNU/Linux | good idea, because it tends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | suppress any hereditary propensity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
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