Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:19446 misc.legal:5880 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!greg From: greg@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Greg Bullough) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal Subject: Re: Is ARC a valid trademark? Message-ID:Date: 22 Sep 88 18:22:36 GMT References: <1682@qiclab.UUCP> <3190@ttidca.TTI.COM> <10117@eddie.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: greg@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Greg Bullough) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 25 In article <10117@eddie.MIT.EDU> ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry) writes: >In article <3190@ttidca.TTI.COM> troeger@ttidcb.tti.com (Jeff Troeger) writes: >>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. > >If DATAPOINT has indeed been using this as a trademark since the 70's, >I wonder why it hasn't bothered to register their trademark. This leads >me to believe that there have been challenges to their exclusive use of the >letters, disallowing them to register it with the trademark office. > >If ARC has been in common use, I find it hard to believe they can have >an exclusive right to use those letters in the same context. > ARC is also the trade name for "Aircraft Radio Corporation," which is (or was, last I checked) a subsidiary of Cessna Aircraft. They've been around, I think, since at least WWII, since a lot of the military gear of that era bears the designator "ARC." Their contemorary equipment has not been renowned for its reliability. Greg