On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:22:40 -0800 (PST), Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2005, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:14AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Feb 2, 2005, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:07:27 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > wrote: > >> > >> >> With a Synaptics I suppose? You wouldn't like it with an ALPS. > >> > >> > No, it's a Dualpoint, and so ALPS. > >> > >> Err... That doesn't follow. My Dell Inspiron 8000 has a Synaptics > >> touchpad as part of the Dualpoint pointing devices. > > > Dualpoint (tm) is a trademark of ALPS, > > Interesting... Dell DualPoint is the way the pointing devices are > described in that notebook's documentation, and I remember all the way > from back when I purchased the notebook: I really wanted the two > pointing devices. If you search the web for Dell Inspiron 8000 > DualPoint, you'll get a number of hits referring to `Dell's DualPoint > technology'. I don't see them referred to as DualPoint(TM), but I > vaguely remember having seen something like that in Dell's web site > back then. > > Maybe ALPS bought the trademark from Dell, or Dell hadn't actually > registered the trademark, or they somehow managed to get the > trademarks registered with a case difference (DualPoint vs Dualpoint)? >
I am not sure but on this page ALPS states that they have trademark on DualPoint (TM): http://www3.alps.co.jp/cgi-bin/WebObjects/catalog.woa/wa/varietyList?language=english&country=com&top_mode=2003&productId=11&varietyId=3 -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
