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From: troeger@ttidca.TTI.COM (Jeff Troeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Is ARC a valid trademark?
Message-ID: <3190@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 88 18:21:47 GMT
References: <1682@qiclab.UUCP>
Reply-To: troeger@ttidcb.tti.com (Jeff Troeger)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <1682@qiclab.UUCP> leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>I seem to vaguely recall hearing somethiing to the effect that you cannot
>trademark a "descriptive" term. (forgive the vagueness as it has been a
>*long* time since I saw this)

Being unfamiliar with the copyright/trademark issues, I don't know if this
is useful, but DataPoint has a trademark (and has had it since the '70s)
on the word ARC. As reprinted from a current Datapoint Manual

	"Attached Resource Computer" is a trademark of DATAPOINT Corporation.
	Registered in the US patent and Trademark office.
	"ARC" is a trademark of DATAPOINT Corp.