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From: joe@nitrex.UUCP (joe standard)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Your [good] name
Message-ID: <155@nitrex.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 19:22:59 EST
Article-I.D.: nitrex.155
Posted: Mon Nov  4 19:22:59 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 22:11:01 EST
References: <2395@brl-tgr.ARPA>
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Organization: The Standard Oil Co., Cleveland
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Summary: don't tell me this is true

In article <2395@brl-tgr.ARPA>, wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>For example, I understand that the trademark laws overrule your ability
>to use your name in the name of a business that you own. Even if you were
>born "Joe Standard", and you have documentary proof of thiry generations
>of people named "Standard" from whom you are descended, and you form an
>oil company, you cannot name this company "Standard Oil Company",
>because the rights to that name are already held by another entity. Is
>that correct? Any other details or legal points involved here?

you can't? :-)